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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan


Earthquake location 39.9377S, 143.0652WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 101 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (63 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:08:19 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000nqe8. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqe8. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 02:08:19 / September 8, 2024 @ 2:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0652 East, latitude 39.9377 North, depth = 41.392 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.392 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km ENE of Miyako, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0652° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.392 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101 km ENE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-08 02:08:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-08 02:39:26 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us6000nqe8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqe8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqe8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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