Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Haebaru in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Haebaru in Japan on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.07 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/17 / 2017-09-02 21:26:30 / September 2, 2017 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 128.3918 East, latitude 26.157 North, depth = 12.07 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:26:30 / 6:26 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000arm5. Unique identifier: us2000arm5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itoman, Naha-shi, Tomigusuku.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 55 km ESE of Haebaru, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.3918° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.157° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km ESE of Haebaru, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-02 21:26:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-23 05:24:30	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	0.684	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us2000arm5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000arm5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000arm5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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