Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 64 km SE of Hasaki, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007nib. Id of event: us60007nib. The temblor was reported at 01:21:16 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 16:21:16 / January 23, 2020 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.05 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 141.3711° East, 35.3595° North, depth 20.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tōgane, Ōhara, Narutō (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Asahi (c. 41 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hasaki (c. 39 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yōkaichiba (c. 32 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Omigawa (c. 25 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Narutō (c. 25 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3711° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3595° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km SE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-23 16:21:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-20 23:01:17	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	2.547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us60007nib	Id of event.
Event Code	60007nib	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007nib,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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