Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Shima in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Shima in Japan on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/24 / 2024-04-21 12:28:14 / April 21, 2024 @ 12:28 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:28:14 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 328.88 km (204 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 136.9666 East, latitude 34.3971 North, depth = 328.88 km. Unique identifier: us7000mdna. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdna. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tsushima, Iwata, Nagoya-shi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yokkaichi (c. 295 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km ENE of Shima, 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	136.9666° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3971° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	328.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ENE of Shima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-21 12:28:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-14 07:56:59	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	123	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.952	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us7000mdna	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mdna	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mdna,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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