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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 38 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan


Earthquake location 42.9885S, 145.4454WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.805 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000nd3f. Event ids that are associated: us7000nd3f. Global time and date of event 11/09/24 / 2024-09-11 16:04:05 / September 11, 2024 @ 4:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 145.4454° East, 42.9885° North, depth 47.805 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:04:05 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushiro, Shibetsu, Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 38 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.805 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-11 16:04:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-11 20:58:02 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 298 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.952 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us7000nd3f Id of event.
Event Code 7000nd3f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nd3f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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