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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tomioka in Japan


Earthquake location 37.0679S, 141.4486WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Tomioka in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.4486° East, latitude 37.0679° North, depth = 72.985 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 72.985 km (45 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nh59. Unique identifier: us6000nh59. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 07:14:21 / July 19, 2024 @ 7:14 am. The temblor was reported at 07:14:21 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishikawa, Hitachi, Funehikimachi-funehiki (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km SE of Tomioka, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4486° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.985 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km SE of Tomioka, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-19 07:14:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-01 09:00:44 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 271 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 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 us6000nh59 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nh59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nh59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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