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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ohara in Japan


Earthquake location 35.3222S, 140.6084WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ohara in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000fw1l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fw1l. The temblor was reported at 02:58:07 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 17:58:07 / June 27, 2018 @ 5:58 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 140.6084 East, latitude 35.3222 North, depth = 37.19 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.19 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tokyo, Miura, Sōka. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Ohara, 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 140.6084° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE of Ohara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 17:58:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-03 20:29:34 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 2.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us2000fw1l Id of event.
Event Code 2000fw1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fw1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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