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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Takedamachi in Japan on Friday. Global time and date of event 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 20:25:02 / June 7, 2018 @ 8:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 119.51 km (74 miles). Unique identifier: us1000ep78. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ep78. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:25:02 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.3867 East, latitude 33.0072 North, depth = 119.51 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yatsushiro, Tosu, Yukuhashi.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days eight 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. 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: 4 km NNW of Takedamachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.3867° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0072° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	119.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNW of Takedamachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-07 20:25:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-20 22:48:02	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	0.444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us1000ep78	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ep78	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ep78,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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