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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kuzumaki in Japan


Earthquake location 39.9614S, 141.5736WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kuzumaki in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 141.5736 East, latitude 39.9614 North, depth = 77.367 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 00:02:13 / November 14, 2024 @ 12:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nrml. Id of event: us7000nrml. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 77.367 km (48 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:02:13 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakunodatemachi, Ōdate, Kitakami.

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 fourteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SE of Kuzumaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5736° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SE of Kuzumaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-14 00:02:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-14 00:19:07 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 312 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us7000nrml Id of event.
Event Code 7000nrml An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nrml, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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