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


Earthquake location 43.6497S, 139.9083WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Yoichi in Japan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 139.9083° East, 43.6497° North, depth 213.94 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 213.94 km (133 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700034vr. Unique identifier: us700034vr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 08:57:51 / April 12, 2019 @ 8:57 am. 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 17:57:51 / 5:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwanai, Yoichi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Yoichi (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Iwanai (c. 15 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 85 km NW of Yoichi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9083° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6497° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 213.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km NW of Yoichi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-12 08:57:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 04:59:38 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 1.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us700034vr Id of event.
Event Code 700034vr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034vr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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