Light earthquake: M4.3 quake strikes near Shinshiro in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has striked on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Shinshiro in Japan. The temblor was reported at 05:25:27 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 286.92 km (178 miles). Global time of event 20/02/15 / 2015-02-20 20:25:27 / February 20, 2015 @ 8:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 137.5652 East, latitude 35.1001 North, depth 286.92 km, unique identifier, usc000trz7

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suzuka, Ōgaki, Gujō.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.5652° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1001° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	286.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NNE of Shinshiro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-20 20:25:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-20 21:40:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.504	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	usc000trz7	Id of event.
Event Code	c000trz7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usc000trz7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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