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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.6655S, 140.9251WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Global time and date of event 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 09:18:10 / September 19, 2024 @ 9:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 140.9251° East, 35.6655° North, depth 43.764 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nt0t. Unique identifier: us6000nt0t. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:18:10 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.764 km (27 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawaguchi, Kisarazu, Tsukuba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SE of Hasaki, 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 140.9251° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.764 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-19 09:18:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-19 11:13:06 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000nt0t Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt0t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt0t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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