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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kitaibaraki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.6371S, 141.6232WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. Global time and date of event 05/09/20 / 2020-09-05 01:34:36 / September 5, 2020 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 30.73 km, 141.6232° East, 36.6371° North. Id of earthquake: us7000bi8d. Event ids that are associated: us7000bi8d. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:34:36 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.73 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hitachi, Takahagi, Iwaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 79 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6232° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-05 01:34:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-05 01:55:11 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 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 2.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bi8d Id of event.
Event Code 7000bi8d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bi8d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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