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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Urakawa in Japan


Earthquake location 41.8753S, 142.608WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Urakawa in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 142.608° East, latitude 41.8753° North, depth = 76.228 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 76.228 km (47 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:31:09 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mt1f. Id of event: us7000mt1f. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/24 / 2024-06-17 16:31:09 / June 17, 2024 @ 4:31 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km SSW of Urakawa, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.608° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.228 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km SSW of Urakawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-17 16:31:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-17 17:15:50 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us7000mt1f Id of event.
Event Code 7000mt1f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mt1f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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