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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Itoigawa in Japan


Earthquake location 37.6151S, 137.6558WA 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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More information

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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