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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Minami-Sōma in Japan

Posted by admin on October 11, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.642S, 140.9046WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Minami-Sōma in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 22:35:20 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000ny74. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ny74. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.759 km (64 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 22:35:20 / October 11, 2024 @ 10:35 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 140.9046 East, latitude 37.642 North, depth = 102.759 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sagae, Kitaibaraki, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 6 km WNW of Minami-Sōma, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9046° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.759 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WNW of Minami-Sōma, 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 22:35:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-11 22:58:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us6000ny74 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ny74 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ny74, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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