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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Toride in Japan


Earthquake location 35.888S, 140.1037WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Toride in Japan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:38:43 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 140.1037° East, latitude 35.888° North, depth = 52.73 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 02:38:43 / July 20, 2016 @ 2:38 am. Unique identifier: us20006g12. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006g12. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.73 km (33 miles).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodamachō-kodamaminami, Chichibu, Hitachi. Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km SE of Toride, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SE of Toride, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 02:38:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 22:41:32 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 0.349 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 153 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 us20006g12 Id of event.
Event Code 20006g12 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006g12, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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