Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Yamada in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yamada in Japan. The temblor was detected at 18:21:28 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.9674 East, latitude 39.4136 North, depth = 48.257 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.257 km (30 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 18:21:28 / April 16, 2024 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000mchq. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mchq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ichinoseki, Shizukuishi, Mizusawa (min 5000 pop). 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 6 km SSE of Yamada, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.9674° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4136° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.257 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SSE of Yamada, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-16 18:21:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-25 15:38:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.539	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000mchq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mchq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mchq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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