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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Funaishikawa in Japan

Posted by admin on July 4, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4495S, 140.654WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 62.31 km, 140.654° East, 36.4495° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 62.31 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mwza. Id of event: us7000mwza. The temblor was picked up at 01:25:26 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/24 / 2024-07-04 01:25:26 / July 4, 2024 @ 1:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kukichūō, Sano, Kasukabe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop).

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 eight and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 8 km ESE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.654° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ESE 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 2024-07-04 01:25:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-04 01:52:55 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 326 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us7000mwza Id of event.
Event Code 7000mwza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mwza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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