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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 50 km SSE of Ofunato, Japan


Earthquake location 38.6339S, 141.8793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Ofunato in Japan on Sunday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:26:14 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/06/19 / 2019-06-09 00:26:14 / June 9, 2019 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 141.8793° East, 38.6339° North, depth 58.88 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.88 km (37 miles). Event id: us600040qu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600040qu.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Tomiya, Rifu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 50 km SSE of Ofunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SSE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-09 00:26:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-19 01:32:54 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 1.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us600040qu Id of event.
Event Code 600040qu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040qu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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