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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tomioka in Japan


Earthquake location 37.4361S, 141.5945WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Tomioka in Japan on Thursday. Unique identifier: us6000mz0k. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mz0k. The temblor was reported at 16:15:27 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.944 km (33 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 141.5945° East, 37.4361° North, depth 52.944 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/24 / 2024-05-16 16:15:27 / May 16, 2024 @ 4:15 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miharu, Kakuda, Watari. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Miharu (c. 19 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Marumori (c. 16 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km ENE of Tomioka, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5945° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4361° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.944 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km ENE of Tomioka, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-16 16:15:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-16 16:35:03 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.854 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000mz0k Id of event.
Event Code 6000mz0k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mz0k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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