Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Shiroi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Shiroi in Japan. The temblor was detected at 04:04:22 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 140.1308° East, 35.7423° North, depth 70.24 km. Unique identifier: us20009m19. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009m19. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 70.24 km (44 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 19:04:22 / June 12, 2017 @ 7:04 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utsunomiya-shi, Yorii, Ninomiya. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km SE of Shiroi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.1308° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SE of Shiroi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-12 19:04:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-11 21:35:48	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	312	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	1.753	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us20009m19	Id of event.
Event Code	20009m19	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009m19,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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