Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Tateyama in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 179 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan (111 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.126 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 140.4518° East, latitude 33.4409° North, depth = 62.126 km. Global time and date of event 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 10:21:19 / July 6, 2024 @ 10:21 am UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:21:19 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000mxei. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mxei.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 179 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.4518° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4409° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.126 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	179 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-06 10:21:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-06 10:53:16	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	354	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.625	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us7000mxei	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mxei	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mxei,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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