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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 78 km S of Ōyama, Japan


Earthquake location 33.9001S, 138.0959WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Ōyama in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 138.0959° East, 33.9001° North, depth 266.512 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mzm2. Unique identifier: us6000mzm2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/05/24 / 2024-05-19 08:15:37 / May 19, 2024 @ 8:15 am. The temblor was detected at 08:15:37 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 266.512 km (166 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwata, Sagara, Ōyama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Iwata (c. 88 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sagara (c. 25 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ōyama (c. 21 700 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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 78 km S of Ōyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.0959° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 266.512 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78 km S of Ōyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-19 08:15:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-19 09:30:01 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 284 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000mzm2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mzm2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mzm2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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