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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan


Earthquake location 36.2847S, 142.1153WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 11:56:54 / October 5, 2016 @ 11:56 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:56:54 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.1153° East, latitude 36.2847° North, depth = 33.85 km. Unique identifier: us10006v51. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006v51. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.85 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: off the east coast of Honshu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1153° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the east coast of Honshu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-05 11:56:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-03 12:44:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.556 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us10006v51 Id of event.
Event Code 10006v51 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006v51, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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