Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Takedamachi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Takedamachi in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.4384 East, latitude 33.0408 North, depth = 104.653 km. Unique identifier: us6000mxar. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mxar. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.653 km (65 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 19:34:44 / May 8, 2024 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:34:44 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Iizuka (c. 78 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iizuka, Tosu, Kanda (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 8 km NNE of Takedamachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.4384° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0408° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.653 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNE of Takedamachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-08 19:34:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 18:41:55	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.74	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us6000mxar	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mxar	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mxar,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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