Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Fujikawaguchiko in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Fujikawaguchiko in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 182.4 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000crmq. Event ids that are associated: us7000crmq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 23:49:38 / December 12, 2020 @ 11:49 pm. Exact location, longitude 138.6886° East, latitude 35.5552° North, depth = 182.4 km. The temblor was detected at 23:49:38 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fukayachō, Shiojiri, Wako (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Machida (c. 400 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tokorozawa (c. 339 400 pop).

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. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 7 km N of Fujikawaguchiko, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.6886° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5552° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	182.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km N of Fujikawaguchiko, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-12 23:49:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-25 05:52:44	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	246	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	0.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us7000crmq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000crmq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000crmq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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