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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 34 km ESE of Ohara, Japan

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1697S, 140.7518WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ohara in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.11 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35.11 km, 140.7518° East, 35.1697° North. The temblor was reported at 18:28:06 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 09:28:06 / October 6, 2019 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005udk. Id of event: us70005udk.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Funabashi, Kashima-shi, Itako (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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 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: 34 km ESE of Ohara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7518° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2019-10-06 09:28:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 07:58:36 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 2.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us70005udk Id of event.
Event Code 70005udk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005udk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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