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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 29 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan


Earthquake location 40.597S, 141.8258WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan on Friday. The temblor was detected at 21:36:16 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/24 / 2024-04-26 21:36:16 / April 26, 2024 @ 9:36 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.692 km (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8258 East, latitude 40.597 North, depth = 66.692 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mw2m. Event ids that are associated: us6000mw2m.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aomori Shi, Mutsu, Ichinohe. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 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. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.692 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-26 21:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-05 20:53:58 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 298 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.61 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000mw2m Id of event.
Event Code 6000mw2m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mw2m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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