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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 102 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan


Earthquake location 36.8069S, 141.9884WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan (63 miles) on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.59 km (20 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:26:23 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003kal. Id of event: us10003kal. Exact location, longitude 141.9884° East, latitude 36.8069° North, depth = 32.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/15 / 2015-10-05 00:26:23 / October 5, 2015 @ 12:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 102 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9884° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km ESE of Iwaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-05 00:26:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-05 00:44:23 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 1.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10003kal Id of event.
Event Code 10003kal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003kal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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