Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Ōfunato in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.1402 East, latitude 38.7333 North, depth = 48.99 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.99 km (30 miles). Global time and date of event 12/09/20 / 2020-09-12 03:02:54 / September 12, 2020 @ 3:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:02:54 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000bpdc. Event ids that are associated: us7000bpdc.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Ichinoseki, Yamoto. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km SE of Ōfunato, 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	142.1402° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 km SE of Ōfunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-12 03:02:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-17 23:35:59	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	2.214	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000bpdc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bpdc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bpdc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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