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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 9 km NNW of Fujinomiya, Japan


Earthquake location 35.2933S, 138.5688WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Fujinomiya in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 138.5688° East, 35.2933° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 13:50:47 / June 9, 2018 @ 1:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000emw0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000emw0. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:50:47 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fujisawa, Ōme, Ina (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hiratsuka (c. 259 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Fuji (c. 240 000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NNW of Fujinomiya, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.5688° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNW of Fujinomiya, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-09 13:50:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-10 21:59:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 168 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 0.691 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000emw0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000emw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000emw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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