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


Earthquake location 45.5066S, 142.5861WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Makubetsu in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 142.5861 East, latitude 45.5066 North, depth = 310.31 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005e6h. Unique identifier: us10005e6h. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/16 / 2016-05-05 23:04:20 / May 5, 2016 @ 11:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:04:20 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 310.31 km (193 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Wakkanai (c. 41 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Makubetsu (c. 25 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakkanai, Makubetsu (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 61 km ENE of Makubetsu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5861° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.5066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 310.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km ENE of Makubetsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-05 23:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-05 23:57:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.387 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us10005e6h Id of event.
Event Code 10005e6h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005e6h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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