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


Earthquake location 33.194S, 138.0968WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 156 km S of Oyama, Japan (97 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 321.42 km (200 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:55:19 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000dvp2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dvp2. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 00:55:19 / May 2, 2018 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.0968 East, latitude 33.194 North, depth = 321.42 km.

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 156 km S of Oyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.0968° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.194° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 321.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 156km S of Oyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-02 00:55:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 01:57:49 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 1.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us1000dvp2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dvp2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dvp2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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