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


Earthquake location 39.5282S, 143.4102WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 125 km E of Yamada, Japan (78 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/24 / 2024-08-04 07:14:36 / August 4, 2024 @ 7:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.4102 East, latitude 39.5282 North, depth = 23.856 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:14:36 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.856 km (15 miles). Unique identifier: us6000ni0s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ni0s.

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

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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: 125 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4102° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5282° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.856 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125 km E 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 2024-08-04 07:14:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 07:04:35 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us6000ni0s Id of event.
Event Code 6000ni0s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ni0s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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