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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ushiku in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ushiku in Japan on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.614 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/24 / 2024-07-16 13:19:20 / July 16, 2024 @ 1:19 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mzjf. Unique identifier: us7000mzjf. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:19:20 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.0895 East, latitude 35.9718 North, depth = 71.614 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tamamura, Katsuura, Yaita.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km W of Ushiku, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.0895° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9718° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.614 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km W of Ushiku, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-16 13:19:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-16 17:23:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	298	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.623	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000mzjf	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mzjf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mzjf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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