Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Yokohama in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Yokohama in Japan on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.77 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.091 East, latitude 41.1841 North, depth = 46.77 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n8cz. Unique identifier: us6000n8cz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/24 / 2024-06-14 18:24:18 / June 14, 2024 @ 6:24 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:24:18 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe, Misawa, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 71 km E of Yokohama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.091° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.1841° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 km E of Yokohama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-14 18:24:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-10 16:18:52	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.871	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us6000n8cz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n8cz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n8cz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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