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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 55 km ESE of Hyūga, Japan

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Earthquake location 32.1962S, 132.1626WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Hyūga in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:15 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/24 / 2024-06-30 10:38:15 / June 30, 2024 @ 10:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 132.1626° East, 32.1962° North, depth 24.469 km. Unique identifier: us6000n9dp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n9dp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.469 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saiki, Miyazaki-shi, Tsuma. Event epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km ESE of Hyūga, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.1626° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.1962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.469 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km ESE of Hyūga, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-30 10:38:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-01 07:58:05 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 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000n9dp Id of event.
Event Code 6000n9dp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n9dp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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