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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Shingu in Japan


Earthquake location 33.6269S, 135.9167WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Shingu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 135.9167° East, latitude 33.6269° North, depth = 413.13 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 413.13 km (257 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 14:03:47 / May 13, 2018 @ 2:03 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:03:47 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000e445. Event ids that are associated: us1000e445.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gose, Iwade, Kainan. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Tanabe (c. 69 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hashimoto (c. 57 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Iwade (c. 55 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kainan (c. 43 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Gojō (c. 34 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Gose (c. 32 900 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SSW of Shingu, 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 135.9167° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.6269° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 413.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Shingu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-13 14:03:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 14:39:03 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 1.704 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000e445 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e445 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e445, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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