Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Minami-Sōma in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Minami-Sōma in Japan. Unique identifier: us6000nex3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nex3. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.129 km (35 miles). Exact location, longitude 141.7543° East, latitude 37.7112° North, depth = 56.129 km. The temblor was detected at 03:27:39 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/24 / 2024-07-13 03:27:39 / July 13, 2024 @ 3:27 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamoto, Shiogama, Kakuda (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km E of Minami-Sōma, 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	141.7543° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7112° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.129 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km E of Minami-Sōma, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-13 03:27:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-24 00:49:49	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.064	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	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	us6000nex3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nex3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nex3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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