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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Yuzawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yuzawa in Japan. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:02:43 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 137.1 km (85 miles). 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: 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 04:02:43 / April 21, 2019 @ 4:02 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.4507 East, latitude 39.2255 North, depth = 137.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700039vl. Unique identifier: us700039vl.

Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Akita Shi (c. 325 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Akita (c. 320 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tsuruoka (c. 99 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Sagae, Tōno (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of Yuzawa, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.4507° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2255° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNW of Yuzawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-21 04:02:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-21 04:21:39	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	1.38	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us700039vl	Id of event.
Event Code	700039vl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700039vl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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