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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tateyama in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 10:47:31 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/24 / 2024-08-27 10:47:31 / August 27, 2024 @ 10:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.1198 East, latitude 34.6364 North, depth = 80.868 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nn1p. Id of event: us6000nn1p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.868 km (50 miles).

The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kamakura (c. 166 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kimitsu (c. 92 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zushi (c. 60 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kamakura, Mobara, Zushi. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.1198° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6364° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80.868 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-27 10:47:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-27 13:02:03	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us6000nn1p	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nn1p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nn1p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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