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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Nichinan in Japan


Earthquake location 31.5569S, 131.7598WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 131.7598 East, latitude 31.5569 North, depth = 40.957 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 11:42:49 / September 15, 2024 @ 11:42 am. The temblor was detected at 11:42:49 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ng89. Unique identifier: us7000ng89. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.957 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokubu-matsuki, Kanoya, Kobayashi. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km E of Nichinan, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.7598° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.5569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.957 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km E of Nichinan, 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 11:42:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-28 10:31:52 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 312 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us7000ng89 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ng89 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ng89, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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