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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 93 km SSE of Toba, Japan


Earthquake location 33.7023S, 137.2224WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 93 km SSE of Toba, Japan (58 miles). Event id: us700048gr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700048gr. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 00:06:35 / July 2, 2019 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 354.61 km, 137.2224° East, 33.7023° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 354.61 km (220 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:06:35 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 93 km SSE of Toba, 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 137.2224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 354.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SSE of Toba, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-02 00:06:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 00:34:08 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 1.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us700048gr Id of event.
Event Code 700048gr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700048gr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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