Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Motegi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Motegi in Japan on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000c3h4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3h4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/17 / 2017-12-05 13:08:03 / December 5, 2017 @ 1:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.39 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 22:08:03 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 140.0851° East, 36.5587° North, depth 107.39 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Numata, Ogawa, Shiki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop).

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

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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: 9 km WNW of Motegi, 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	140.0851° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5587° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WNW of Motegi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-05 13:08:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-17 21:02:48	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	1.423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us2000c3h4	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c3h4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c3h4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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