Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Misawa in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Misawa in Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 08:08:08 / July 19, 2024 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000nh55. Event ids that are associated: us6000nh55. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 60.438 km (38 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:08:08 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.9272 East, latitude 40.9915 North, depth = 60.438 km.

The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mutsu, Hachinohe, Misawa (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 56 km NE of Misawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.9272° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.438 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km NE of Misawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-19 08:08:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-01 07:59:10	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.684	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	172	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	us6000nh55	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nh55	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nh55,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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