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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tateyama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.79 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, depth 54.79 km, 139.8384° East, 34.9757° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 23:27:23 / June 15, 2020 @ 11:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:27:23 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000acir. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000acir.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fussa, Hatogaya-honchō, Asaka. Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km WSW of Tateyama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.8384° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9757° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km WSW 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	2020-06-15 23:27:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-15 23:45:05	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	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	1.393	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 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	us6000acir	Id of event.
Event Code	6000acir	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000acir,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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