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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kitaibaraki in Japan

Posted by admin on July 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7743S, 140.8861WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan on Monday. Event id: us7000n0r5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n0r5. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.8861 East, latitude 36.7743 North, depth = 86.096 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 86.096 km (53 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:07:33 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/24 / 2024-07-22 01:07:33 / July 22, 2024 @ 1:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nihommatsu, Itako, Shimodate. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 12 km E of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8861° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.096 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km E of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-22 01:07:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-22 01:22:28 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000n0r5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n0r5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n0r5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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