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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kashima-shi in Japan


Earthquake location 36.0888S, 141.0001WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kashima-shi in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 15:41:05 / November 15, 2024 @ 3:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ns09. Unique identifier: us7000ns09. The temblor was picked up at 15:41:05 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0001 East, latitude 36.0888 North, depth = 48.089 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.089 km (30 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (59 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kashiwa, Mooka, Chiba (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km ENE of Kashima-shi, 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 141.0001° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.089 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-15 15:41:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-15 16:17:51 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us7000ns09 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ns09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ns09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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