Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Muko in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Muko in Japan. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:30:07 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 366.2 km, 135.6608° East, 34.999° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us600040sy. Ids that are associated to the event: us600040sy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 366.2 km (228 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 19:30:07 / June 10, 2019 @ 7:30 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Himeji (c. 481 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Himeji, Shirahamachō-usazakiminami, Iwade (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 5 km NW of Muko, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	135.6608° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	366.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NW of Muko, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-10 19:30:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-26 23:24:53	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	1.174	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us600040sy	Id of event.
Event Code	600040sy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600040sy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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