Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Tomioka in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Tomioka in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 71.314 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 141.3221° East, 37.3103° North, depth 71.314 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:51:31 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/24 / 2024-07-17 20:51:31 / July 17, 2024 @ 8:51 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ngpm. Id of event: us6000ngpm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watari, Fukushima-shi, Kakuda (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km E of Tomioka, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3221° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3103° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.314 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 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	2024-07-17 20:51:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-12 17:12:45	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	259	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.61	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us6000ngpm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ngpm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ngpm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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