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


Earthquake location 41.9416S, 142.5213WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:09:39 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 52.39 km, 142.5213° East, 41.9416° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008zpf. Id of event: us70008zpf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/04/20 / 2020-04-19 03:09:39 / April 19, 2020 @ 3:09 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.39 km (33 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 45 km SSE of Shizunai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5213° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-19 03:09:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-19 04:26:48 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 1.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us70008zpf Id of event.
Event Code 70008zpf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008zpf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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