Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Hitachi in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Hitachi in Japan. Event id: us100076a4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100076a4. Global time and date of event 08/11/16 / 2016-11-08 12:43:20 / November 8, 2016 @ 12:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 141.1072° East, 36.4407° North. The temblor was detected at 21:43:20 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ami, Makabe, Iwase (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 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: 44 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.1072° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km ESE of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-08 12:43:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-08 13:42:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.448	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100076a4	Id of event.
Event Code	100076a4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100076a4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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