Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ōfunato in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 60.587 km, 142.0564° East, 38.9391° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.587 km (38 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:02:47 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mzu7. Id of event: us7000mzu7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/24 / 2024-07-09 19:02:47 / July 9, 2024 @ 7:02 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Kitakami, Ishinomaki. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0564° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9391° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.587 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-09 19:02:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-18 14:40:58	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	259	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.999	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	214	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	us7000mzu7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mzu7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mzu7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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