Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Noda in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Noda in Japan on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/24 / 2024-11-30 02:04:59 / November 30, 2024 @ 2:04 am. Exact location of event, longitude 142.3124 East, latitude 40.2587 North, depth = 54.729 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nv1j. Id of event: us7000nv1j. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:04:59 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.729 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Misawa, Ichinohe, Miyako. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 45 km ENE of Noda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3124° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2587° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.729 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45 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	2024-11-30 02:04:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-30 02:41:03	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	284	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	us7000nv1j	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nv1j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nv1j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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