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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Toride in Japan

Posted by admin on September 15, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8711S, 140.0841WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Toride in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.923 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:51:31 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 140.0841° East, latitude 35.8711° North, depth = 75.923 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 16:51:31 / September 15, 2024 @ 4:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000ne37. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ne37.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hadano, Ōmamachō-ōmama, Hitachi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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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. 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: 3 km S of Toride, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.923 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km S of Toride, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-15 16:51:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 19:19:44 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us7000ne37 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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