Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 141.567° East, latitude 38.2437° North, depth = 83.51 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 00:39:57 / November 9, 2020 @ 12:39 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.51 km (52 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000ce8r. Event ids that are associated: us7000ce8r. The temblor was detected at 00:39:57 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōfunato, Shiroishi, Ichinoseki (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.567° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2437° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-09 00:39:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-22 05:59:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	2.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000ce8r	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ce8r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ce8r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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