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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tomioka in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2289S, 142.1867WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 104 km E of Tomioka, Japan (65 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/08/24 / 2024-08-01 14:51:23 / August 1, 2024 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000nhd1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nhd1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 30.898 km, 142.1867° East, 37.2289° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:51:23 / 2:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.898 km (19 miles).

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 seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km E of Tomioka, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.898 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km E 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 2024-08-01 14:51:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-01 15:29:41 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.262 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 138 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 us6000nhd1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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