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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km WSW of Yokohama, Japan


Earthquake location 41.0658S, 141.1803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yokohama in Japan on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.791 km (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p6ru. Unique identifier: us6000p6ru. Global time and date of event 21/11/24 / 2024-11-21 14:30:23 / November 21, 2024 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:30:23 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 141.1803° East, 41.0658° North, depth 55.791 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kamiiso, Ichinohe, Hakodate.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km WSW of Yokohama, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1803° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.0658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.791 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Yokohama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-21 14:30:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-21 17:16:39 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 326 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000p6ru Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6ru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6ru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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