Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Aomori-shi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Aomori-shi in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98.5 km (61 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.0963 East, latitude 40.9467 North, depth = 98.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:51:17 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/17 / 2017-06-08 14:51:17 / June 8, 2017 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us20009mpb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009mpb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hanawa, Ōdate, Ichinohe.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km ENE of Aomori-shi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.0963° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9467° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km ENE of Aomori-shi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-08 14:51:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-02 15:44:09	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	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us20009mpb	Id of event.
Event Code	20009mpb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009mpb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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