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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Chōfu in Japan

Posted by admin on July 30, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6395S, 139.6053WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Chōfu in Japan. The temblor was detected at 16:47:15 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000ngwt. Event ids that are associated: us6000ngwt. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 16:47:15 / July 30, 2024 @ 4:47 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 119.959 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 139.6053° East, latitude 35.6395° North, depth = 119.959 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maebashi-shi, Mooka, Asahi.

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ESE of Chōfu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.6053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6395° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.959 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km ESE of Chōfu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-30 16:47:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-30 17:07:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 326 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 129 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us6000ngwt Id of event.
Event Code 6000ngwt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ngwt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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