Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 104 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan (65 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/24 / 2024-07-28 10:13:06 / July 28, 2024 @ 10:13 am. Id of earthquake: us6000njw2. Event ids that are associated: us6000njw2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.921° East, 38.8111° North, depth 27.876 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.876 km (17 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:13:06 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.921° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8111° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.876 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-28 10:13:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-19 06:32:09	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.371	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 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	us6000njw2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njw2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000njw2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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