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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Otofuke in Japan


Earthquake location 43.0018S, 143.3729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Otofuke in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.96 km (77 miles). Event id: us10004xkw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004xkw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 20:31:37 / March 14, 2016 @ 8:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.3729 East, latitude 43.0018 North, depth = 123.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:31:37 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shimo-furano, Kushiro, Obihiro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shimo-furano (c. 25 900 pop).

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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km E of Otofuke, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km E of Otofuke, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-14 20:31:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-21 20:57:20 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 298 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 0.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10004xkw Id of event.
Event Code 10004xkw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004xkw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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