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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 270 km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan


Earthquake location 31.0257S, 141.3449WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 270 km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (168 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.87 km (15 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:43:07 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 19:43:07 / January 13, 2017 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10007vt7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vt7. Exact location, longitude 141.3449° East, latitude 31.0257° North, depth = 23.87 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 270 km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan. This data 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 141.3449° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 270km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-13 19:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-10 22:24:32 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 2.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us10007vt7 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vt7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vt7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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