Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 140 km ESE of Nago, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 140 km ESE of Nago, Japan (87 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.54 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.2548 East, latitude 26.0497 North, depth = 20.54 km. Event id: us100069v8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069v8. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 22:02:12 / July 30, 2016 @ 10:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:02:12 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days 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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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: 140 km ESE of Nago, 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	129.2548° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.0497° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	140km ESE of Nago, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-30 22:02:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-07 03:59:29	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	1.178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us100069v8	Id of event.
Event Code	100069v8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100069v8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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