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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ichihara in Japan


Earthquake location 35.5317S, 140.0284WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ichihara in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.646 km (44 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/24 / 2024-11-04 15:10:56 / November 4, 2024 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 70.646 km, 140.0284° East, 35.5317° North. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:10:56 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000npv8. Id of event: us7000npv8.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mito-shi, Yugawara, Kasama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

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

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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: 5 km WNW of Ichihara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0284° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.646 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WNW of Ichihara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-04 15:10:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-04 17:09:35 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 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000npv8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000npv8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000npv8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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