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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Hakui in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hakui in Japan. The temblor was detected at 14:52:51 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.404 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.404 km, 136.3613° East, 36.9528° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nu9d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nu9d. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 14:52:51 / November 26, 2024 @ 2:52 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Fukui-shi (c. 248 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nyūzen, Katsuyama, Fukui-shi. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km WNW of Hakui, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.3613° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9528° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.404 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km WNW of Hakui, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-26 14:52:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-26 15:10:17	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.535	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nu9d	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nu9d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nu9d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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