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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan

Posted by admin on October 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.516S, 140.0261WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 222 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan (138 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10003n0w. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003n0w. Exact location of earthquake, 140.0261° East, 27.516° North, depth 486.03 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 486.03 km (302 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:17:03 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 12:17:03 / September 30, 2015 @ 12:17 pm.

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 222 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0261° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 486.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 222km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-30 12:17:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-22 10:22:26 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 1.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10003n0w Id of event.
Event Code 10003n0w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003n0w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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