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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hasaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.5586S, 141.2405WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.2405° East, 35.5586° North, depth 34.99 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.99 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 05:26:58 / August 6, 2015 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:26:58 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002z18. Unique identifier: us10002z18.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sakura, Shisui, Narita. Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yachimata (c. 83 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km ESE of Hasaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2405° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-06 05:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-04 07:24:55 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 1.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10002z18 Id of event.
Event Code 10002z18 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002z18, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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