Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Ichinohe in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Ichinohe in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000bgg5. Event ids that are associated: us7000bgg5. Exact location of event, longitude 141.7196 East, latitude 40.1776 North, depth = 60.43 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:20:19 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 18:20:19 / August 27, 2020 @ 6:20 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.43 km (38 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hanawa (c. 36 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōtsuchi, Shizukuishi, Yamada (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km E of Ichinohe, 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	141.7196° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1776° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km E of Ichinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-27 18:20:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-08 18:41:36	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	0.789	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 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	us7000bgg5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bgg5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bgg5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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