Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hitachi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Sunday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:32:16 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nnfb. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nnfb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/24 / 2024-10-27 03:32:16 / October 27, 2024 @ 3:32 am. Exact location of earthquake, 140.5574° East, 36.6581° North, depth 62.493 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.493 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moriya, Toride, Fujioka (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 10 km (7 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NW of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.5574° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6581° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.493 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NW of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-27 03:32:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-29 21:14:32	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	298	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.893	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us7000nnfb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nnfb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nnfb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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