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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Takahagi in Japan

Posted by admin on December 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7561S, 140.6854WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 6.79 km, 140.6854° East, 36.7561° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.79 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 22:18:32 / December 21, 2015 @ 10:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:18:32 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100048nm. Event ids that are associated: us100048nm.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itako, Ami, Naka (min 5000 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 four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Takahagi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6854° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7561° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW 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 2015-12-21 22:18:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 04:38:34 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 0.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us100048nm Id of event.
Event Code 100048nm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048nm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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