Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Miyazaki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Miyazaki in Japan. Id of earthquake: us6000mth5. Event ids that are associated: us6000mth5. The temblor was reported at 15:26:03 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.588 km (26 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.8107° East, 31.7116° North, depth 42.588 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 15:26:03 / April 24, 2024 @ 3:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kobayashi, Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Shibushi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km ESE of Miyazaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.8107° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7116° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km ESE of Miyazaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-24 15:26:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-25 11:08:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	271	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us6000mth5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mth5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mth5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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