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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Kizukuri in Japan


Earthquake location 41.0946S, 140.0303WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Kizukuri in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 158.58 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:24:42 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 140.0303° East, 41.0946° North, depth 158.58 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 00:24:42 / May 29, 2016 @ 12:24 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005yy3. Id of event: us20005yy3.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kuroishi (c. 38 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Namioka (c. 20 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Shimokizukuri (c. 18 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuroishi, Hirosaki, Aomori Shi. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km NW of Kizukuri, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0303° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.0946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 158.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NW of Kizukuri, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-29 00:24:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-29 00:48:37 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 0.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us20005yy3 Id of event.
Event Code 20005yy3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yy3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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