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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Asahi in Japan


Earthquake location 35.5546S, 140.7552WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Asahi in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 00:03:26 / 12:03 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/06/24 / 2024-06-06 00:03:26 / June 6, 2024 @ 12:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000mqlh. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mqlh. Exact location of event, longitude 140.7552 East, latitude 35.5546 North, depth = 45.522 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.522 km (28 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makabe, Kawaguchi, Tomobe.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 20 km SSE of Asahi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7552° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.522 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SSE of Asahi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-06 00:03:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-06 00:16:21 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 340 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us7000mqlh Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqlh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqlh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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