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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Gotemba in Japan


Earthquake location 35.384S, 139.0273WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Gotemba in Japan on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 13:58:32 / May 27, 2020 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000a043. Event ids that are associated: us6000a043. Exact location of event, longitude 139.0273 East, latitude 35.384 North, depth = 151.52 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:58:32 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 151.52 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Funabashi, Gyōda, Kasukabe (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NE of Gotemba, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.0273° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE of Gotemba, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-27 13:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 21:25:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000a043 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a043 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a043, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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