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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Shimoda in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Shimoda in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 21:13:20 / May 10, 2017 @ 9:13 pm. Unique identifier: us10008ra5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008ra5. The temblor was reported at 06:13:20 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.6502 East, latitude 34.6097 North, depth = 223.48 km. 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 223.48 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Odawara, Hamamatsu, Hamakita (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fuji (c. 240 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Numazu (c. 204 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Odawara (c. 203 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fujieda (c. 132 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km WSW of Shimoda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.6502° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6097° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	223.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km WSW of Shimoda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-10 21:13:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-10 21:36:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	0.391	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us10008ra5	Id of event.
Event Code	10008ra5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008ra5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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