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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Gujo in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Gujo in Japan on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 14:34:21 / December 20, 2017 @ 2:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:34:21 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 293.88 km (183 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 137.0179° East, 35.6318° North, depth 293.88 km. Id of earthquake: us1000btp3. Event ids that are associated: us1000btp3.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishiki, Shinshiro, Suzuka (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Kasugai (c. 298 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yokkaichi (c. 295 800 pop).

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

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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. 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: 12 km SSE of Gujo, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.0179° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	293.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE of Gujo, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-20 14:34:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-21 07:08:32	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	0.281	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us1000btp3	Id of event.
Event Code	1000btp3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000btp3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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