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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tendo in Japan


Earthquake location 38.3269S, 140.3687WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tendo in Japan on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003ntd. Unique identifier: us20003ntd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 20:06:10 / September 24, 2015 @ 8:06 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 140.3687 East, latitude 38.3269 North, depth = 128.02 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:06:10 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.02 km (80 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ichinoseki, Motomiya, Inawashiro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven 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 quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km S of Tendo, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.3687° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3269° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Tendo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 20:06:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 23:17:10 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 2.475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us20003ntd Id of event.
Event Code 20003ntd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ntd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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