Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Chigasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Chigasaki in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 153.174 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:48:36 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/24 / 2024-08-05 14:48:36 / August 5, 2024 @ 2:48 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 139.4344° East, 35.2236° North, depth 153.174 km. Id of earthquake: us7000n90j. Event ids that are associated: us7000n90j.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichibu, Shiraoka, Sakura (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).

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

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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: 12 km SSE of Chigasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.4344° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2236° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	153.174 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSE of Chigasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-05 14:48:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-25 16:11:12	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	259	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.649	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	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	us7000n90j	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n90j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n90j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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