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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 43.3924S, 146.1751WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:07:30 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.954 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 22:07:30 / April 19, 2024 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000mdbe. Event ids that are associated: us7000mdbe. Exact location, longitude 146.1751° East, latitude 43.3924° North, depth = 53.954 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Nemuro.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km E of Nemuro, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.1751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.954 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km E of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-19 22:07:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-19 22:33:17 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 354 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us7000mdbe Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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