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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.2713S, 142.2507WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100098r2. Id of event: us100098r2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.49 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 08:02:52 / July 11, 2017 @ 8:02 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:02:52 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 142.2507 East, latitude 38.2713 North, depth = 40.49 km.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamoto, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 84 km E of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2507° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km E of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-11 08:02:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-21 08:43:54 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 1.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us100098r2 Id of event.
Event Code 100098r2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100098r2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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