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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ishigaki in Japan


Earthquake location 24.1778S, 124.229WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 00:15:52 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 00:15:52 / October 11, 2024 @ 12:15 am. Event id: us6000nxzm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nxzm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 124.229° East, 24.1778° North, depth 35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 19 km SSE of Ishigaki, 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 124.229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km SSE of Ishigaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-11 00:15:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-11 01:16:39 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 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000nxzm Id of event.
Event Code 6000nxzm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nxzm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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