Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Noda in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Noda in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.666 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.4938° East, 40.194° North, depth 45.666 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:22:30 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000p7bu. Id of event: us6000p7bu. Global time and date of event 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 23:22:30 / November 23, 2024 @ 11:22 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōtsuchi, Ichinohe, Yamada (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 58 km E of Noda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.4938° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.194° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.666 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km E of Noda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-23 23:22:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-23 23:45:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	400	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	107	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us6000p7bu	Id of event.
Event Code	6000p7bu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000p7bu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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