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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tarama in Japan

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Earthquake location 24.1948S, 125.1205WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tarama in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000mdrv. Event ids that are associated: us7000mdrv. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.348 km (19 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.1205° East, latitude 24.1948° North, depth = 30.348 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 04:19:45 / April 22, 2024 @ 4:19 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:19:45 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km SE of Tarama, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.348 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km SE 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 2024-04-22 04:19:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-30 01:25:59 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us7000mdrv Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdrv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdrv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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