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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Miyako in Japan

Posted by admin on March 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.1282S, 142.5421WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Miyako in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.5421 East, latitude 40.1282 North, depth = 55.08 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/16 / 2016-02-25 08:31:57 / February 25, 2016 @ 8:31 am. Id of earthquake: us10004sj0. Event ids that are associated: us10004sj0. The temblor was detected at 18:31:57 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.08 km (34 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Miyako. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 74 km NE of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5421° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1282° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-25 08:31:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-13 11:33:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 1.941 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us10004sj0 Id of event.
Event Code 10004sj0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sj0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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