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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Onagawa Chō in Japan

Posted by admin on November 20, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.0297S, 141.8606WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63.243 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.8606 East, latitude 38.0297 North, depth = 63.243 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:09:50 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000p6i0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000p6i0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/24 / 2024-11-20 08:09:50 / November 20, 2024 @ 8:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Furukawa, Ōkawara, Namie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km SE of Onagawa Chō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8606° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0297° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.243 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km SE 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 2024-11-20 08:09:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-20 08:38:12 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 369 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us6000p6i0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6i0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6i0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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