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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Yotsukaido in Japan

Posted by admin on July 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.606S, 140.1912WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Yotsukaido in Japan on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.56 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:29:44 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 22:29:44 / June 11, 2016 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us200063vq. Ids that are associated to the event: us200063vq. Exact location, longitude 140.1912° East, latitude 35.606° North, depth = 65.56 km.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mooka, Hitachi-Naka, Kumagaya.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km SSE of Yotsukaido, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.606° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Yotsukaido, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-11 22:29:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-30 23:45:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 276 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 0.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us200063vq Id of event.
Event Code 200063vq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063vq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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