Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Chiba in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Chiba in Japan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mt8x. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mt8x. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 71.115 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:01:58 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 17:01:58 / April 23, 2024 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 140.0758 East, latitude 35.5709 North, depth = 71.115 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kasama, Mito-shi, Ogawa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SW of Chiba, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.0758° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5709° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.115 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SW of Chiba, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-23 17:01:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-01 17:20:53	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.327	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us6000mt8x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mt8x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mt8x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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