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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tarama in Japan


Earthquake location 25.2385S, 124.7807WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Tarama in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000mt5t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mt5t. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 96.787 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 96.787 km, 124.7807° East, 25.2385° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 09:41:10 / April 23, 2024 @ 9:41 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:41:10 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km N of Tarama, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7807° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.2385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.787 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km N of Tarama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-23 09:41:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-25 09:39:41 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.989 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000mt5t Id of event.
Event Code 6000mt5t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mt5t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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