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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Nichinan in Japan


Earthquake location 31.3743S, 132.3337WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 05:20:01 / October 1, 2024 @ 5:20 am. 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 20.417 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 20.417 km, 132.3337° East, 31.3743° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmfi. Unique identifier: us7000nmfi. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:20:01 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nichinan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 95 km ESE of Nichinan, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.3337° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.417 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 km ESE 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 2024-10-01 05:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-28 08:52:20 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 340 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000nmfi Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmfi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmfi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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