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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.6225S, 140.8976WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Id of earthquake: us1000d3qj. Event ids that are associated: us1000d3qj. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:46:30 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/18 / 2018-03-13 06:46:30 / March 13, 2018 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 140.8976 East, latitude 35.6225 North, depth = 34.39 km. 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 34.39 km (21 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Sōka (c. 231 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Makabe, Sōka, Noda.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SSE of Hasaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8976° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-13 06:46:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-13 07:15:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 363 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 2.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us1000d3qj Id of event.
Event Code 1000d3qj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d3qj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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