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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Izu Islands, Japan region

Posted by admin on July 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.6999S, 142.1316WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066ir. Unique identifier: us200066ir. The temblor was detected at 20:43:40 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.03 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 11:43:40 / June 20, 2016 @ 11:43 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.1316 East, latitude 30.6999 North, depth = 31.03 km.

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 thirty-five 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Izu Islands, Japan region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1316° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Izu Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 11:43:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 07:39:08 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 3.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us200066ir Id of event.
Event Code 200066ir An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066ir, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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