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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan


Earthquake location 39.7414S, 141.9895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.77 km (34 miles). Id of earthquake: us70008ps9. Event ids that are associated: us70008ps9. The temblor was picked up at 16:41:44 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.9895 East, latitude 39.7414 North, depth = 54.77 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 07:41:44 / April 6, 2020 @ 7:41 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitakami, Shizukuishi, Hanamaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNE of Miyako, Japan. This information 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 141.9895° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-06 07:41:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 08:10:42 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 1.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us70008ps9 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ps9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ps9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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