Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Saiki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Saiki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 132.216 East, latitude 32.6157 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:30:36 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000aakx. Event ids that are associated: us6000aakx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 11:30:36 / June 12, 2020 @ 11:30 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Uwajima (c. 59 000 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Usuki (c. 35 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nakamura (c. 34 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tsuma, Ōita, Takanabe (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 47 km SE of Saiki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	132.216° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.6157° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km SE of Saiki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-12 11:30:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-12 11:57:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	326	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	1.236	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us6000aakx	Id of event.
Event Code	6000aakx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aakx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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