Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Miyazaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Miyazaki in Japan on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 18:49:51 / September 9, 2024 @ 6:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.069 km (16 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:49:51 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqr9. Unique identifier: us6000nqr9. Exact location, longitude 131.7809° East, latitude 31.8595° North, depth = 25.069 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nobeoka, Shibushi, Kobayashi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 35 km E of Miyazaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.7809° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.8595° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.069 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km E of Miyazaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-09 18:49:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-22 12:54:07	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	271	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.185	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	us6000nqr9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nqr9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nqr9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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