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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Yawatahama in Japan


Earthquake location 33.2622S, 132.2763WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Yawatahama in Japan on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nt9k. Id of event: us6000nt9k. Exact location, longitude 132.2763° East, latitude 33.2622° North, depth = 50.692 km. The temblor was reported at 12:22:20 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 12:22:20 / September 20, 2024 @ 12:22 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.692 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwakuni, Tokuyama, Susaki. Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Iwakuni (c. 104 000 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Tokuyama (c. 101 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 26 km SW of Yawatahama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.2763° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2622° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.692 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SW of Yawatahama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-20 12:22:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-20 12:52:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 370 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.416 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000nt9k Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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