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


Earthquake location 28.7469S, 128.6949WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Naze in Japan. 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 32.86 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us100097le. Unique identifier: us100097le. The temblor was reported at 09:11:50 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/17 / 2017-06-30 00:11:50 / June 30, 2017 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 32.86 km, 128.6949° East, 28.7469° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 87 km WNW of Naze, 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 128.6949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.7469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km WNW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-30 00:11:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-08 04:37:52 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 1.94 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us100097le Id of event.
Event Code 100097le An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100097le, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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