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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sakado in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sakado in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:01:40 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.84 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 07:01:40 / March 20, 2016 @ 7:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, 139.4003° East, 35.9917° North, depth 92.84 km. Id of earthquake: us20005b7b. Event ids that are associated: us20005b7b.

Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ujiie, Nirasaki, Motegi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days fourty 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NNE of Sakado, 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	139.4003° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9917° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NNE of Sakado, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-20 07:01:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-20 22:39:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	272	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	0.683	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us20005b7b	Id of event.
Event Code	20005b7b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005b7b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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