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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 21 km N of Nanao, Japan


Earthquake location 37.2456S, 136.9926WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Nanao in Japan on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 23:56:47 / May 31, 2016 @ 11:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005zhh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005zhh. Exact location, longitude 136.9926° East, latitude 37.2456° North, depth = 267.15 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 267.15 km (166 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:56:47 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 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 Matsutō, Nonoichi, Itoigawa.

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 21 km N of Nanao, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.9926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2456° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 267.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Nanao, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-31 23:56:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 01:42:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 1.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us20005zhh Id of event.
Event Code 20005zhh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zhh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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