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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 23 km ESE of Maizuru, Japan


Earthquake location 35.3417S, 135.5605WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Maizuru in Japan. Global time and date of event 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 05:54:31 / March 31, 2016 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20005dlh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005dlh. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:54:31 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 135.5605° East, 35.3417° North, depth 363.25 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 363.25 km (226 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takaishi, Kakogawachō-honmachi, Tawaramoto. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Amagasaki (c. 442 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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: 23 km ESE of Maizuru, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.5605° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 363.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ESE of Maizuru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-31 05:54:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 06:35:11 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 1.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us20005dlh Id of event.
Event Code 20005dlh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dlh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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