Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Mutsu in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Mutsu in Japan on Friday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:19:59 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.71 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/06/19 / 2019-06-28 09:19:59 / June 28, 2019 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 54.71 km, 141.8629° East, 41.5853° North. Event id: us700046gz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700046gz.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 63 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8629° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.5853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63km ENE of Mutsu, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-28 09:19:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-05 07:06:46	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	0.997	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	111	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	us700046gz	Id of event.
Event Code	700046gz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700046gz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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