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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 71 km W of Noshiro, Japan

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Earthquake location 40.1873S, 139.1911WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Noshiro in Japan on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/24 / 2024-04-28 00:25:58 / April 28, 2024 @ 12:25 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:25:58 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.1911 East, latitude 40.1873 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000muia. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000muia.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Akita Shi (c. 325 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Akita (c. 320 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Tennō (c. 22 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Akita, Akita Shi, Tennō (min 5000 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 have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 71 km W of Noshiro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.1911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 km W of Noshiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-28 00:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-28 01:12:19 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 326 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000muia Id of event.
Event Code 6000muia An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muia, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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