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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 34 km NW of Miyako, Japan


Earthquake location 39.8979S, 141.6952WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Miyako in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.33 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 21:32:37 / December 25, 2020 @ 9:32 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 141.6952° East, 39.8979° North, depth 47.33 km. The temblor was reported at 21:32:37 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d31c. Id of event: us6000d31c.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōfunato, Misawa, Kitakami (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km NW of Miyako, Japan. This data 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 141.6952° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km 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 2020-12-25 21:32:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-25 22:52:38 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 1.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000d31c Id of event.
Event Code 6000d31c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d31c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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