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


Earthquake location 42.0972S, 142.6006WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Urakawa in Japan on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 28/05/24 / 2024-05-28 23:22:36 / May 28, 2024 @ 11:22 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000mnnd. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mnnd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.482 km (43 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:22:36 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 69.482 km, 142.6006° East, 42.0972° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km WSW of Urakawa, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6006° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.482 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km WSW of Urakawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-28 23:22:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-14 05:27:11 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000mnnd Id of event.
Event Code 7000mnnd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mnnd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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