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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Onagawa Chō in Japan

Posted by admin on July 25, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.4715S, 141.6614WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 07:26:11 / July 25, 2024 @ 7:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 75.97 km, 141.6614° East, 38.4715° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nfke. Unique identifier: us6000nfke. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.97 km (47 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:26:11 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakuda, Tōno, Ōkawara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4715° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-25 07:26:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 07:44:22 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 312 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000nfke Id of event.
Event Code 6000nfke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nfke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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