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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Hasaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.611S, 141.2626WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Saturday. Global time and date of event 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 20:29:10 / April 10, 2020 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008tgt. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008tgt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.06 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:29:10 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.2626° East, latitude 35.611° North, depth = 41.06 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Yachimata (c. 83 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sakura, Edosaki, Inashiki (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km ESE of Hasaki, 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 141.2626° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-10 20:29:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-10 21:47:54 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 2.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us70008tgt Id of event.
Event Code 70008tgt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008tgt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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