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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Yamada in Japan


Earthquake location 39.1246S, 143.0032WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 98 km ESE of Yamada, Japan (61 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mzzr. Unique identifier: us7000mzzr. The temblor was detected at 12:04:17 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 143.0032° East, latitude 39.1246° North, depth = 33.988 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.988 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/24 / 2024-07-18 12:04:17 / July 18, 2024 @ 12:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 98 km ESE of Yamada, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0032° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.988 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km ESE 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 2024-07-18 12:04:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-13 05:36:05 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us7000mzzr Id of event.
Event Code 7000mzzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mzzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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