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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kushiro in Japan


Earthquake location 41.462S, 144.1571WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 169 km S of Kushiro, Japan (105 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.04 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20009y19. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009y19. The temblor was picked up at 08:26:28 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.1571 East, latitude 41.462 North, depth = 25.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/07/17 / 2017-07-13 22:26:28 / July 13, 2017 @ 10:26 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 169 km S of Kushiro, Japan. This data 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 144.1571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.462° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 169km S of Kushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-13 22:26:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-23 00:53:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 0.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us20009y19 Id of event.
Event Code 20009y19 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009y19, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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