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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Hisai-motomachi in Japan


Earthquake location 34.3978S, 136.3239WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hisai-motomachi in Japan on Friday. The temblor was reported at 06:04:15 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d6n9. Id of event: us6000d6n9. The epicenter was at a depth of 365.5 km (227 miles). Global time and date of event 08/01/21 / 2021-01-08 06:04:15 / January 8, 2021 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 136.3239° East, 34.3978° North, depth 365.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaizuka, Toyonaka, Ōbu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hirakata (c. 406 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Toyonaka (c. 384 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Nara-shi (c. 367 400 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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km SSW of Hisai-motomachi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.3239° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 365.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SSW of Hisai-motomachi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-08 06:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 06:37:56 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 246 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 1.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us6000d6n9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6n9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6n9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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