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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hakui in Japan


Earthquake location 36.946S, 136.4381WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Hakui in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 08:31:06 / November 28, 2024 @ 8:31 am. The temblor was reported at 08:31:06 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.4381 East, latitude 36.946 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000nunw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nunw.

Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nyūzen, Maruoka, Kamiichi. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 31 km WNW of Hakui, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.4381° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 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 2024-11-28 08:31:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-28 09:01:22 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 3.4 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 312 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nunw Id of event.
Event Code 7000nunw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nunw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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