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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yomitan in Japan

Posted by admin on August 1, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.4762S, 127.2416WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Yomitan in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.2416 East, latitude 26.4762 North, depth = 51.946 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/24 / 2024-08-01 19:16:28 / August 1, 2024 @ 7:16 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhfa. Unique identifier: us6000nhfa. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.946 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:16:28 / 7:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nago, Katsuren-haebaru, Gushikawa. Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km W of Yomitan, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2416° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.4762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.946 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km W of Yomitan, 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 19:16:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-01 20:27:41 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.83 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 us6000nhfa Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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