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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Kitaibaraki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.8031S, 140.5719WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 140.5719 East, latitude 36.8031 North, depth = 22.97 km. Global time and date of event 01/04/17 / 2017-04-01 11:28:31 / April 1, 2017 @ 11:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.97 km (14 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:28:31 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008dsx. Unique identifier: us10008dsx.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oyama, Tochigi, Nihommatsu. Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 16 km W of Kitaibaraki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5719° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-01 11:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-02 22:45:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 248 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 1.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us10008dsx Id of event.
Event Code 10008dsx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008dsx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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