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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 14 km W of Urakawa, Japan


Earthquake location 42.1797S, 142.6144WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Urakawa in Japan on Monday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:52 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.778 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 142.6144° East, 42.1797° North, depth 84.778 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/24 / 2024-11-11 22:13:52 / November 11, 2024 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nuqu. Id of event: us7000nuqu.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō. The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km W of Urakawa, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6144° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.1797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.778 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km W of Urakawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-11 22:13:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-11 03:01:03 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 259 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us7000nuqu Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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