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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Toyota in Japan

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1815S, 137.3209WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Toyota in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 20:43:31 / April 27, 2024 @ 8:43 pm. The temblor was reported at 20:43:31 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 291.032 km, 137.3209° East, 35.1815° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 291.032 km (181 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000mugn. Event ids that are associated: us6000mugn. 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 Hino, Shizuoka-shi, Nagahama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (23 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km NE of Toyota, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.3209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 291.032 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km NE of Toyota, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-27 20:43:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-04 04:21:30 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 340 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 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us6000mugn Id of event.
Event Code 6000mugn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mugn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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