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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Kyoto in Japan


Earthquake location 35.017S, 135.745WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Kyoto in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 04:07:17 / November 24, 2015 @ 4:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 135.745° East, 35.017° North. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:07:17 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us100040mf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100040mf. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Akashi, Tarui, Yokkaichi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 0 km WSW of Kyoto, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.745° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WSW of Kyoto, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-24 04:07:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-24 05:02:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 179 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 0.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100040mf Id of event.
Event Code 100040mf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040mf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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