Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Hakui in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 172 km WNW of Hakui, Japan (107 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/04/19 / 2019-04-25 20:23:25 / April 25, 2019 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 134.9658 East, latitude 37.4429 North, depth = 379.48 km. The temblor was detected at 05:23:25 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003c5j. Id of event: us70003c5j. 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 379.48 km (236 miles).

Every 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. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 172 km WNW of Hakui, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	134.9658° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4429° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	379.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	172km WNW of Hakui, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-25 20:23:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-21 14:43:10	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	2.658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us70003c5j	Id of event.
Event Code	70003c5j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003c5j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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