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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Asahi in Japan


Earthquake location 35.6388S, 140.6496WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Asahi in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.54 km (36 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 13:50:14 / March 22, 2017 @ 1:50 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:50:14 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 140.6496 East, latitude 35.6388 North, depth = 57.54 km. Event id: us20008twh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008twh. 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 Iwase, Funaishikawa, Sakai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km S of Asahi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6496° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Asahi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-22 13:50:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-22 21:55:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us20008twh Id of event.
Event Code 20008twh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008twh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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