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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 28.6992S, 128.589WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 94 km WNW of Naze, Japan (58 miles) on Thursday. Event id: us100096wz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096wz. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:53:09 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.67 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.589 East, latitude 28.6992 North, depth = 23.67 km. Global time and date of event 28/06/17 / 2017-06-28 23:53:09 / June 28, 2017 @ 11:53 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km WNW of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.589° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km WNW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-28 23:53:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-12 03:04:57 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 1.877 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us100096wz Id of event.
Event Code 100096wz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096wz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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