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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Watari in Japan

Posted by admin on August 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.0038S, 140.9949WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Watari in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.9949 East, latitude 38.0038 North, depth = 105.884 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/24 / 2024-08-01 16:28:34 / August 1, 2024 @ 4:28 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:28:34 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 105.884 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7yc. Id of event: us7000n7yc.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Inawashiro, Kōriyama, Nagai. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 13 km ESE of Watari, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.884 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km ESE of Watari, 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 16:28:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-19 21:13:22 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us7000n7yc Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7yc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7yc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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