Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 221 km ESE of Ofunato, Japan (137 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:10:54 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u11. Unique identifier: us10004u11. Exact location of earthquake, 143.8241° East, 37.9574° North, depth 32.81 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.81 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/16 / 2016-02-26 07:10:54 / February 26, 2016 @ 7:10 am.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 221 km ESE of Ofunato, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.8241° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9574° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	221km ESE of Ofunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-26 07:10:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-16 12:31:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	246	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	2.401	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us10004u11	Id of event.
Event Code	10004u11	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004u11,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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