Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Itoigawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Itoigawa in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 10:40:49 / May 10, 2024 @ 10:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:40:49 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000myzp. Unique identifier: us6000myzp. Exact location of earthquake, 137.6558° East, 37.6151° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uozu, Nanao, Ryōtsu-minato. Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Jōetsu (c. 204 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kashiwazaki (c. 86 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Uozu (c. 45 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Nanao (c. 45 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Itoigawa (c. 30 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nyūzen (c. 27 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arai (c. 27 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 66 km NNW of Itoigawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.6558° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6151° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66 km NNW of Itoigawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-10 10:40:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-17 12:25:19	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	312	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us6000myzp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000myzp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000myzp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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