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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 4 km NNW of Funaishikawa, Japan


Earthquake location 36.5055S, 140.5423WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us6000mw07. Event ids that are associated: us6000mw07. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/24 / 2024-04-25 04:45:54 / April 25, 2024 @ 4:45 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:45:54 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 140.5423 East, latitude 36.5055 North, depth = 59.868 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.868 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shisui, Sugito, Hasaki (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNW of Funaishikawa, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5423° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.868 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNW of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-25 04:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-04 04:45:09 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 259 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.88 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us6000mw07 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mw07 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mw07, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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