Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ōhara in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ōhara in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph74. Id of event: us6000ph74. Exact location of event, longitude 140.4442 East, latitude 35.2719 North, depth = 66.162 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/24 / 2024-12-15 01:58:53 / December 15, 2024 @ 1:58 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.162 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:58:53 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kamirenjaku, Minami-rinkan, Mitsukaidō.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 5 km ENE of Ōhara, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.4442° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.162 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ENE of Ōhara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-15 01:58:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-09 06:39:04	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us6000ph74	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ph74	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ph74,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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