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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Goshogawara in Japan

Posted by admin on September 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.7384S, 140.4259WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Goshogawara in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 20:16:02 / September 10, 2015 @ 8:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.4259° East, latitude 40.7384° North, depth = 186.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 186.08 km (116 miles). Unique identifier: us20003huu. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003huu. The temblor was detected at 05:16:02 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Mutsu, Misawa.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 7 km S of Goshogawara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 186.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km S of Goshogawara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-10 20:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 23:56:43 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 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 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us20003huu Id of event.
Event Code 20003huu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003huu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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