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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 16 km SSE of Asahi, Japan


Earthquake location 35.5798S, 140.7209WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Asahi in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 140.7209° East, 35.5798° North, depth 38.19 km. Unique identifier: us20009l7c. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009l7c. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.19 km (24 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/17 / 2017-06-08 00:25:29 / June 8, 2017 @ 12:25 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:25:29 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saitama, Sugito, Tateyama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSE of Asahi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5798° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE of Asahi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-08 00:25:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-08 01:06:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 369 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 2.255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us20009l7c Id of event.
Event Code 20009l7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009l7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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