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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Miyakojima in Japan

Posted by admin on September 7, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.7538S, 125.4001WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Miyakojima in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4001° East, 24.7538° North, depth 48.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.55 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 14:01:00 / September 7, 2024 @ 2:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqaw. Unique identifier: us6000nqaw. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:01:00 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. Event epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km ESE of Miyakojima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4001° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.7538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km ESE of Miyakojima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-07 14:01:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-07 16:02:38 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000nqaw Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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