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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Hitachi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 14:07:15 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.94 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.2019 East, latitude 36.463 North, depth = 40.94 km. Global time and date of event 09/02/17 / 2017-02-09 05:07:15 / February 9, 2017 @ 5:07 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20008imm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008imm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Motegi, Sawara, Ishioka (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2019° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.463° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km ESE of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-09 05:07:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-09 05:32:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	272	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	1.441	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us20008imm	Id of event.
Event Code	20008imm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008imm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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