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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 22 km NW of Miyako, Japan


Earthquake location 39.7882S, 141.7736WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Miyako in Japan. The temblor was detected at 15:24:51 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.85 km (42 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 06:24:51 / July 27, 2018 @ 6:24 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000geyu. Id of event: us2000geyu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.7736° East, 39.7882° North, depth 66.85 km.

The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mizusawa, Hachinohe, Ōfunato (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NW of Miyako, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7736° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NW of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-27 06:24:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 06:39:34 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 1.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us2000geyu Id of event.
Event Code 2000geyu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000geyu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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