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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on June 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.8435S, 125.3752WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The temblor was detected at 11:21:10 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3752 East, latitude 24.8435 North, depth = 44.294 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/24 / 2024-06-18 11:21:10 / June 18, 2024 @ 11:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.294 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mt5s. Id of event: us7000mt5s.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ENE of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8435° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.294 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-18 11:21:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-18 12:31:22 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 340 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us7000mt5s Id of event.
Event Code 7000mt5s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mt5s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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