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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on July 30, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.1453S, 125.3477WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 10:22:52 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/24 / 2024-07-05 10:22:52 / July 5, 2024 @ 10:22 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000myte. Id of event: us7000myte. Exact location of earthquake, 125.3477° East, 25.1453° North, depth 41.502 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.502 km (26 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara. Close 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km N of Hirara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.1453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.502 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km N of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-05 10:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-30 08:09:06 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us7000myte Id of event.
Event Code 7000myte An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000myte, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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