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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Onagawa Chō in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 44.186 km, 142.1149° East, 38.4694° North. Id of earthquake: us7000nduc. Event ids that are associated: us7000nduc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:40:57 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.186 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 19:40:57 / September 14, 2024 @ 7:40 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kogota (c. 19 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ichinoseki, Shiogama, Kogota (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 twenty 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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.1149° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4694° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.186 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-14 19:40:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-14 21:36:53	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	340	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.455	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000nduc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nduc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nduc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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