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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Yamato in Japan

Posted by admin on August 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.4908S, 139.5461WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Yamato in Japan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.063 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:05:11 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/08/24 / 2024-08-27 17:05:11 / August 27, 2024 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 139.5461 East, latitude 35.4908 North, depth = 47.063 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nn2w. Id of event: us6000nn2w.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shimodate, Tamamura, Tanuma. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 8 km ENE of Yamato, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.5461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.063 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of Yamato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-27 17:05:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-27 17:32:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.508 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000nn2w Id of event.
Event Code 6000nn2w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nn2w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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