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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tsuruoka in Japan


Earthquake location 38.5935S, 139.3996WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Tsuruoka in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 07:04:26 / July 11, 2019 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:04:26 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.3996° East, 38.5935° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70004hr5. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004hr5.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamagata-shi, Niitsu-honchō, Kaminoyama (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Niigata-shi (c. 505 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tsuruoka (c. 99 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Shibata (c. 80 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Niitsu-honchō (c. 65 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km WSW of Tsuruoka, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3996° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WSW of Tsuruoka, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-11 07:04:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 07:26:14 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 298 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 1.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us70004hr5 Id of event.
Event Code 70004hr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004hr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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