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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Nichinan in Japan


Earthquake location 31.3525S, 131.5502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. Global time and date of event 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 10:14:26 / August 9, 2024 @ 10:14 am UTC/GMT. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:14:26 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000np9j. Id of event: us6000np9j. Exact location of earthquake, 131.5502° East, 31.3525° North, depth 35 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kobayashi, Hamanoichi, Takanabe (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km SSE of Nichinan, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.5502° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SSE of Nichinan, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-09 10:14:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-06 11:04:16 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 284 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.857 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 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 us6000np9j Id of event.
Event Code 6000np9j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000np9j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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