Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Funaishikawa in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:00:59 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6386 East, latitude 36.48 North, depth = 58.775 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/24 / 2024-07-10 15:00:59 / July 10, 2024 @ 3:00 pm. Unique identifier: us7000n0b4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n0b4. The epicenter was at a depth of 58.775 km (37 miles). 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 Satte, Kurihashi, Sakura. Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 6 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.6386° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.48° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.775 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ENE 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	2024-07-10 15:00:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-24 23:12:35	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	298	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.958	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us7000n0b4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n0b4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n0b4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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