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


Earthquake location 40.7451S, 142.5272WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.46 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000e5q3. Event ids that are associated: us1000e5q3. Exact location of earthquake, 142.5272° East, 40.7451° North, depth 53.46 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:47:24 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 18:47:24 / May 15, 2018 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5272° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-15 18:47:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 19:13:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 1.111 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 162 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 us1000e5q3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e5q3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e5q3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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