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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Shiroi in Japan


Earthquake location 35.7356S, 140.1095WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Shiroi in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000c6n5. Event ids that are associated: us7000c6n5. The temblor was reported at 06:58:32 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.26 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 06:58:32 / October 28, 2020 @ 6:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.1095 East, latitude 35.7356 North, depth = 70.26 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kodamachō-kodamaminami, Honjō, Chichibu. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SSE of Shiroi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1095° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SSE of Shiroi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-28 06:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 07:19:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 355 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 1.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us7000c6n5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6n5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6n5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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