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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Iwaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 01:01:15 / February 3, 2019 @ 1:01 am. Exact location of event, depth 55.59 km, 141.2472° East, 37.0898° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.59 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:15 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000jckw. Event ids that are associated: us2000jckw.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Katsuta, Marumori, Fukushima-shi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 32 km E of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2472° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0898° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km E of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-03 01:01:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-03 01:34:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	354	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	0.858	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us2000jckw	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jckw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jckw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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