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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan


Earthquake location 28.1734S, 142.0998WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 121 km N of Chichi-shima, Japan (75 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700091sd. Unique identifier: us700091sd. Exact location of earthquake, 142.0998° East, 28.1734° North, depth 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:56:27 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 03:56:27 / April 15, 2020 @ 3:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 121 km N of Chichi-shima, 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 142.0998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km N of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-15 03:56:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-22 23:25:04 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 1.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us700091sd Id of event.
Event Code 700091sd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700091sd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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