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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 41.8811S, 142.2736WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/02/16 / 2016-02-03 15:35:58 / February 3, 2016 @ 3:35 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.2736 East, latitude 41.8811 North, depth = 64.61 km. The temblor was detected at 00:35:58 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.61 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20004wtm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004wtm.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō. The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 50 km S of Shizunai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2736° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km S of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-03 15:35:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-03 23:07:57 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us20004wtm Id of event.
Event Code 20004wtm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004wtm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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