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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.2101 East, latitude 35.1914 North, depth = 24.96 km. Event id: us7000mzid. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mzid. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/24 / 2024-07-16 09:02:54 / July 16, 2024 @ 9:02 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:02:54 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.96 km (16 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Yachimata (c. 83 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ōami (c. 53 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Asahi (c. 41 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hasaki (c. 39 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yōkaichiba (c. 32 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yachimata, Omigawa, Ōami (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km SSE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2101° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1914° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km SSE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-16 09:02:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-16 09:48:25	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.372	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us7000mzid	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mzid	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mzid,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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