Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 140.9894 East, latitude 35.7228 North, depth = 26.18 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.18 km (16 miles). Unique identifier: us7000bdlu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bdlu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/20 / 2020-08-20 00:28:25 / August 20, 2020 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:28:25 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomobe, Kashiwa, Moriya. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 14 km E of Hasaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9894° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7228° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km E of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-20 00:28:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-02 04:43:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	2.394	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	us7000bdlu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bdlu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bdlu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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