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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Daigo in Japan

Posted by admin on August 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7981S, 140.4916WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Daigo in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/24 / 2024-08-18 15:48:21 / August 18, 2024 @ 3:48 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7ta. Unique identifier: us7000n7ta. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:48:21 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 140.4916 East, latitude 36.7981 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sakai, Iwai, Mitsukaidō (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ENE of Daigo, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4916° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7981° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km ENE of Daigo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-18 15:48:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-18 16:32:49 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 340 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us7000n7ta Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7ta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7ta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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