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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 43.1083S, 145.7191WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. Global time and date of event 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 15:41:13 / March 29, 2018 @ 3:41 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:41:13 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dasl. Unique identifier: us1000dasl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.7191 East, latitude 43.1083 North, depth = 75.53 km. 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 75.53 km (47 miles).

Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7191° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSE of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-29 15:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-29 19:23:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 2.185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000dasl Id of event.
Event Code 1000dasl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dasl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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