Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Nichinan in Japan

A 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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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.

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

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

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

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

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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