Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Heda in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Heda in Japan. The temblor was reported at 14:23:42 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bfax. Unique identifier: us7000bfax. 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 220.66 km (137 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/20 / 2020-08-25 14:23:42 / August 25, 2020 @ 2:23 pm. Exact location, longitude 138.8596° East, latitude 34.9981° North, depth = 220.66 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Machida (c. 400 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fukuroi, Hino, Itsukaichi (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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 7 km ENE of Heda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.8596° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	220.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km ENE of Heda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-25 14:23:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-31 18:41:57	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	259	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	0.641	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us7000bfax	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bfax	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bfax,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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