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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 54 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan

Posted by admin on February 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.8681S, 145.836WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.84 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 08:21:42 / February 1, 2020 @ 8:21 am. Unique identifier: us70007mkd. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007mkd. Exact location of event, depth 51.84 km, 145.836° East, 42.8681° North. The temblor was detected at 18:21:42 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 54 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.836° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 2020-02-01 08:21:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-20 07:02:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 2.67 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us70007mkd Id of event.
Event Code 70007mkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007mkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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