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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hadano in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hadano in Japan on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 139.2285 East, latitude 35.419 North, depth = 21.374 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 11:20:35 / August 15, 2024 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.374 km (13 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:20:35 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000n750. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n750.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tatebayashi, Koga, Mitsukaidō (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km N of Hadano, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.2285° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.419° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.374 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km N of Hadano, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-15 11:20:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-15 11:59:11	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	312	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.398	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000n750	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n750	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n750,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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