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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Tateyama in Japan


Earthquake location 35.0661S, 139.9357WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 139.9357 East, latitude 35.0661 North, depth = 74.17 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/19 / 2019-06-02 10:41:14 / June 2, 2019 @ 10:41 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:41:14 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003udm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003udm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.17 km (46 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Matsudo, Yugawara, Atami (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km NE of Tateyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9357° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NE of Tateyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-02 10:41:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-02 11:32:05 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 158 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 1.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us70003udm Id of event.
Event Code 70003udm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003udm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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