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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Haibara in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Haibara in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 377.34 km, 135.9929° East, 34.4485° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 377.34 km (234 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 10:20:47 / March 25, 2016 @ 10:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:20:47 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20005cea. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005cea.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hikone, Tokoname, Toyohama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Amagasaki (c. 442 200 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SSE of Haibara, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	135.9929° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.4485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	377.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSE of Haibara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-25 10:20:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-25 12:16:32	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	1.238	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us20005cea	Id of event.
Event Code	20005cea	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005cea,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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