Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hachijo-jima in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 87 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (54 miles) on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.23 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, depth 72.23 km, 140.5193° East, 32.5803° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:27:46 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 17:27:46 / January 17, 2019 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jbvw. Id of event: us2000jbvw.

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 87 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.5193° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.5803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-17 17:27:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-11 23:16:53	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	0.798	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212	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	us2000jbvw	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jbvw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jbvw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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