Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 57 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:30:32 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.29 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.3098 East, latitude 36.5115 North, depth = 47.29 km. Event id: us10002kr3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002kr3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/15 / 2015-06-21 20:30:32 / June 21, 2015 @ 8:30 pm.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kashima-shi (c. 65 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomobe, Daigo, Kashima-shi (min 5000 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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 57 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3098° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5115° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km ESE of Takahagi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-21 20:30:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-12 17:20:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	284	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	0.945	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us10002kr3	Id of event.
Event Code	10002kr3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002kr3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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