Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Minami-Sōma in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Minami-Sōma in Japan on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 64.796 km, 141.593° East, 37.7643° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/24 / 2024-10-06 08:09:32 / October 6, 2024 @ 8:09 am. Id of earthquake: us7000nn4i. Event ids that are associated: us7000nn4i. The epicenter was at a depth of 64.796 km (40 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:09:32 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomiya, Hobaramachi, Shiroishi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km ENE of Minami-Sōma, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.593° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.796 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km ENE 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	2024-10-06 08:09:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-27 05:40:42	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	271	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us7000nn4i	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nn4i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nn4i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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