Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hakone in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Hakone in Japan. Event id: us10002n9u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002n9u. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/15 / 2015-06-20 02:44:27 / June 20, 2015 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 139.0552° East, latitude 35.2057° North, depth = 11.3 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:44:27 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatogaya-honchō, Yono, Urayasu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NE of Hakone, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.0552° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2057° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NE of Hakone, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-20 02:44:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-14 23:55:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	271	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	0.889	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us10002n9u	Id of event.
Event Code	10002n9u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002n9u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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