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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 7 km WNW of Ichihara, Japan


Earthquake location 35.5521S, 140.0138WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ichihara in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000byzd. Unique identifier: us1000byzd. Global time and date of event 02/01/18 / 2018-01-02 10:48:39 / January 2, 2018 @ 10:48 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:48:39 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 140.0138 East, latitude 35.5521 North, depth = 37.12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.12 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Menuma, Sano, Tomobe. The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 7 km WNW of Ichihara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0138° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Ichihara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-02 10:48:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 11:24:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 57 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 317 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 1.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000byzd Id of event.
Event Code 1000byzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000byzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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