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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Nagawa in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 186.732 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:40:42 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000my2h. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000my2h. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.2743 East, latitude 36.1751 North, depth = 186.732 km. Global time and date of event 02/07/24 / 2024-07-02 11:40:42 / July 2, 2024 @ 11:40 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kōfu-shi (c. 190 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Isesaki (c. 130 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takayama, Arai, Fukayachō (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 12 km S of Nagawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.2743° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1751° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	186.732 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km S of Nagawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-02 11:40:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-29 07:19:42	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.37	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us7000my2h	Id of event.
Event Code	7000my2h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000my2h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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