Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Fujishiro in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Fujishiro in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.94 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:37:54 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a5jp. Id of event: us2000a5jp. Exact location of earthquake, 140.1449° East, 35.907° North, depth 56.94 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/08/17 / 2017-08-01 15:37:54 / August 1, 2017 @ 3:37 pm.

The epicenter was 47 km (30 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chigasaki, Honjō, Kiryū. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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: 2 km ESE of Fujishiro, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.1449° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ESE of Fujishiro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-01 15:37:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-22 13:41:21	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	1.693	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us2000a5jp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a5jp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a5jp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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