Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Shizunai in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 01:36:21 / January 4, 2018 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.89 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 50.89 km, 143.0947° East, 41.897° North. Unique identifier: us1000c0jp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000c0jp. The temblor was picked up at 10:36:21 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 77 km SE of Shizunai, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.0947° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.897° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km SE of Shizunai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-04 01:36:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-04 01:58:27	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	0.126	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us1000c0jp	Id of event.
Event Code	1000c0jp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000c0jp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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