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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kōzaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.9059S, 140.4461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kōzaki in Japan. The temblor was detected at 01:24:27 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nrgm. Event ids that are associated: us7000nrgm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.714 km (42 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 140.4461 East, latitude 35.9059 North, depth = 67.714 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/24 / 2024-11-13 01:24:27 / November 13, 2024 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sayama, Takahagi, Tanuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 4 km E of Kōzaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.714 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km E of Kōzaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-13 01:24:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-13 05:42:29 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.917 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 153 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 us7000nrgm Id of event.
Event Code 7000nrgm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nrgm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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