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Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near Uwajima in Japan


Earthquake location 33.2503S, 132.3647WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Uwajima in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 132.3647° East, latitude 33.2503° North, depth = 32 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mcpi. Event ids that are associated: us7000mcpi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:14:46 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 14:14:46 / April 17, 2024 @ 2:14 pm.

Event epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) from Hiroshima-shi (c. 1 143 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Kōchi-shi (c. 335 600 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Kure (c. 196 600 pop), 129 km (80 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Niihama (c. 123 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ube, Hiroshima-shi, Aso. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km W of Uwajima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.3647° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km W of Uwajima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-17 14:14:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 15:34:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 101 The total number of felt reports
CDI 8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.839 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level yellow 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 731 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 386 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mcpi Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcpi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcpi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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