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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 1 km N of Hamura, Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Hamura in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 139.3177° East, 35.7799° North, depth 74.256 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nn8r. Event ids that are associated: us7000nn8r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 74.256 km (46 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/10/24 / 2024-10-25 21:20:23 / October 25, 2024 @ 9:20 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:23 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishioka, Mooka, Ōami.

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 1 km N of Hamura, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.3177° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7799° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.256 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km N of Hamura, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-25 21:20:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-25 21:42:28	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us7000nn8r	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nn8r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nn8r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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