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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Oarai in Japan


Earthquake location 36.3122S, 140.8969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Oarai in Japan on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 21:27:13 / May 15, 2020 @ 9:27 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009n6p. Unique identifier: us70009n6p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 51.94 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:27:13 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.8969 East, latitude 36.3122 North, depth = 51.94 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ujiie, Moriya, Yūki (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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: 26 km E of Oarai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km E of Oarai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-15 21:27:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 03:18:03 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 2.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us70009n6p Id of event.
Event Code 70009n6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009n6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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