Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ishinomaki in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 68.12 km (42 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 03:50:07 / September 10, 2017 @ 3:50 am. Unique identifier: us2000aj5p. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000aj5p. Exact location, longitude 141.7252° East, latitude 38.0198° North, depth = 68.12 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:50:07 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Furukawa, Namie, Ōkawara (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km SE of Ishinomaki, 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	141.7252° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0198° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km SE 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	2017-09-10 03:50:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-05 23:57:34	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	0.754	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us2000aj5p	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aj5p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aj5p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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