Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 08:16:18 / July 30, 2015 @ 8:16 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.62 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 31.62 km, 140.7655° East, 37.1384° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002wa7. Id of event: us10002wa7. The temblor was picked up at 17:16:18 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mito-shi, Ōarai, Kakuda (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NW of Iwaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.7655° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1384° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NW of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-30 08:16:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-26 05:59:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.729	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	135	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	us10002wa7	Id of event.
Event Code	10002wa7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002wa7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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