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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Takahagi in Japan


Earthquake location 36.6684S, 140.7725WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Takahagi in Japan on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.7725 East, latitude 36.6684 North, depth = 93.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:48:03 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000asi0. Event ids that are associated: us7000asi0. Global time and date of event 14/07/20 / 2020-07-14 20:48:03 / July 14, 2020 @ 8:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 93.93 km (58 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Namie, Omigawa, Mibu. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Takahagi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7725° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SE of Takahagi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-14 20:48:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-12 21:07:27 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 2.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us7000asi0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000asi0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000asi0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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