Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 12 km WNW of Kitaibaraki, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/24 / 2024-11-13 09:40:51 / November 13, 2024 @ 9:40 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6257 East, latitude 36.8399 North, depth = 47.937 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.937 km (30 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:40:51 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nuwr. Id of event: us7000nuwr.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Inawashiro, Nikkō, Yūki (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 12 km WNW of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.6257° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8399° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.937 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km WNW of Kitaibaraki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-13 09:40:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-30 05:52:05	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	271	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us7000nuwr	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nuwr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nuwr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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