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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Yawatahama in Japan


Earthquake location 33.323S, 132.4083WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Yawatahama in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 15:37:55 / April 17, 2024 @ 3:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 53.956 km (34 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtqp. Unique identifier: us6000mtqp. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:37:55 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 132.4083° East, 33.323° North, depth 53.956 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bungo-Takada-shi, Kudamatsu, Beppu. Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Uwajima (c. 59 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kudamatsu (c. 52 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km S of Yawatahama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.4083° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.956 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km S of Yawatahama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-17 15:37:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-05 08:07:13 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000mtqp Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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