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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Katori-shi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Katori-shi in Japan. Unique identifier: us20008sp2. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008sp2. Global time and date of event 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 13:00:26 / March 17, 2017 @ 1:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:00:26 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.63 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 140.4554° East, 35.9528° North, depth 56.63 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kitaibaraki, Sakado, Sayama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 7 km NNW of Katori-shi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.4554° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9528° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNW of Katori-shi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-17 13:00:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-18 05:49:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	313	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	1.913	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us20008sp2	Id of event.
Event Code	20008sp2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008sp2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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