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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ichinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.1829S, 141.0707WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ichinohe in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n072. Id of event: us7000n072. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 05:27:47 / July 19, 2024 @ 5:27 am. The temblor was reported at 05:27:47 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.488 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.0707° East, latitude 40.1829° North, depth = 13.488 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Akita Shi, Akita, Ōmagari (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Akita Shi (c. 325 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Akita (c. 320 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four 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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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. 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: 19 km WSW of Ichinohe, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0707° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.488 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km WSW of Ichinohe, 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 05:27:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-14 05:53:49 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 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.606 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us7000n072 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n072 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n072, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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