Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kitaibaraki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.74 km (28 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 12:58:40 / March 19, 2016 @ 12:58 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 141.252° East, 36.7374° North, depth 45.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20005bss. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bss. The temblor was detected at 21:58:40 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Okunoya, Namie, Ishikawa.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km E of Kitaibaraki, 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	141.252° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7374° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km E of Kitaibaraki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-19 12:58:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-03 09:50:28	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	0.993	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	172	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	us20005bss	Id of event.
Event Code	20005bss	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005bss,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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