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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tomioka in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Tomioka in Japan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 141.5411 East, latitude 37.4189 North, depth = 68.885 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:21:11 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 02:21:11 / November 9, 2024 @ 2:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nqtu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqtu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.885 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miharu, Kakuda, Watari. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Miharu (c. 19 700 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km ENE of Tomioka, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.5411° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4189° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.885 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km ENE of Tomioka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-09 02:21:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-09 02:48:54	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.808	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000nqtu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqtu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqtu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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