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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kuzumaki in Japan


Earthquake location 39.8582S, 141.4481WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kuzumaki in Japan. Event id: us7000ndnt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndnt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 95.786 km (60 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.4481 East, latitude 39.8582 North, depth = 95.786 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/24 / 2024-09-13 21:59:29 / September 13, 2024 @ 9:59 pm. The temblor was detected at 21:59:29 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōmagari, Misawa, Ōfunato (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 20 km S of Kuzumaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4481° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.786 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km S of Kuzumaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-13 21:59:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-13 22:42:53 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us7000ndnt Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndnt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndnt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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