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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kitaibaraki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.803S, 140.624WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.624 East, latitude 36.803 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hi7e. Unique identifier: us2000hi7e. Global time and date of event 14/09/18 / 2018-09-14 05:45:42 / September 14, 2018 @ 5:45 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:45:42 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naka, Kashima-shi, Oyama.

Every 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 seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km W of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km W of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-14 05:45:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-13 09:09:18 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 1.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us2000hi7e Id of event.
Event Code 2000hi7e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hi7e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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