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

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ohara in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000gfdn. Event ids that are associated: us2000gfdn. The temblor was picked up at 02:57:54 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.41 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 17:57:54 / July 27, 2018 @ 5:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 140.8647° East, 35.0816° North, depth 36.41 km.

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimitsu, Narita, Tateyama.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km ESE of Ohara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.8647° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0816° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km ESE of Ohara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-27 17:57:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-28 05:03:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	285	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	2.146	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us2000gfdn	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gfdn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gfdn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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