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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 22 km ESE of Ōhara, Japan

Posted by admin on December 9, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1525S, 140.6054WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ōhara in Japan on Monday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:33:22 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.133 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6054 East, latitude 35.1525 North, depth = 45.133 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 20:33:22 / December 9, 2024 @ 8:33 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000nxdu. Event ids that are associated: us7000nxdu.

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nagareyama, Ushiku, Kamakura (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km ESE of Ōhara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6054° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.133 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km ESE of Ōhara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-09 20:33:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 21:04:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us7000nxdu Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxdu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxdu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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