Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Akkeshi in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Akkeshi in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000nux1. Event ids that are associated: us7000nux1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/24 / 2024-11-13 21:39:58 / November 13, 2024 @ 9:39 pm. The temblor was picked up at 21:39:58 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.612 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 145.3662 East, latitude 42.7832 North, depth = 59.612 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushiro, Nemuro (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 50 km SE of Akkeshi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.3662° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.7832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.612 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50 km SE of Akkeshi, 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 21:39:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-11 04:41:45	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.807	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	us7000nux1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nux1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nux1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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