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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Onagawa Chō in Japan


Earthquake location 38.4156S, 142.1667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:03:17 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 64.697 km (40 miles). Unique identifier: us7000nqen. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nqen. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.1667 East, latitude 38.4156 North, depth = 64.697 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/24 / 2024-10-18 07:03:17 / October 18, 2024 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wakuya, Yamoto, Ōfunato. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Wakuya (c. 18 300 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1667° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.697 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-18 07:03:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-14 07:43:39 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 284 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us7000nqen Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqen An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqen, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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