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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 67 km S of Hirara, Japan


Earthquake location 24.1949S, 125.2615WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 07:49:51 / May 3, 2016 @ 7:49 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.2615° East, 24.1949° North, depth 35.16 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gk2. Unique identifier: us10005gk2. The temblor was reported at 15:49:51 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.16 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 67 km S of Hirara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1949° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km S of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-03 07:49:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-15 06:44:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 2.07 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us10005gk2 Id of event.
Event Code 10005gk2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gk2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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