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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 63 km NE of Kuji, Japan


Earthquake location 40.6354S, 142.2353WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Kuji in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 142.2353° East, 40.6354° North, depth 83.438 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:06:42 / 12:06 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n00u. Id of event: us6000n00u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 12:06:42 / May 21, 2024 @ 12:06 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.438 km (52 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ichinohe, Misawa, Hachinohe (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 63 km NE of Kuji, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2353° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.438 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km NE of Kuji, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-21 12:06:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 10:32:21 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us6000n00u Id of event.
Event Code 6000n00u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n00u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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