Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Shimoda in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 434 km SSE of Shimoda, Japan (270 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 19:40:05 / May 27, 2020 @ 7:40 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000a5ur. Event ids that are associated: us6000a5ur. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.3219 East, latitude 30.9337 North, depth = 59.21 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:40:05 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.21 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 434 km SSE of Shimoda, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.3219° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.9337° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	434 km SSE of Shimoda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-27 19:40:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-04 14:38:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	2.217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us6000a5ur	Id of event.
Event Code	6000a5ur	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000a5ur,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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