Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 141 km E of Yamada, Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 141 km E of Yamada, Japan (88 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008m3p. Unique identifier: us20008m3p. Global time and date of event 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 12:02:56 / February 15, 2017 @ 12:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:02:56 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.8 km (11 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.5963 East, latitude 39.4507 North, depth = 17.8 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 141 km E of Yamada, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.5963° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4507° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	141km E of Yamada, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-15 12:02:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-10 12:57:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	259	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	2.357	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us20008m3p	Id of event.
Event Code	20008m3p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008m3p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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