Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Noda in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Noda in Japan on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58.897 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 12:59:49 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 58.897 km, 141.9297° East, 40.1318° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/24 / 2024-11-06 12:59:49 / November 6, 2024 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000p70w. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p70w.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizukuishi, Ōtsuchi, Morioka-shi. Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Shizukuishi (c. 19 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km ENE of Noda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.9297° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.897 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ENE 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	2024-11-06 12:59:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-26 15:45:23	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	298	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.931	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us6000p70w	Id of event.
Event Code	6000p70w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000p70w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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