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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Hakui in Japan

Posted by admin on December 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1279S, 136.4009WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Hakui in Japan on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 136.4009° East, latitude 37.1279° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:28:56 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nxvu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nxvu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 02:28:56 / November 27, 2024 @ 2:28 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namerikawa, Yatsuomachi-higashikumisaka, Toyama-shi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 43 km NW of Hakui, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.4009° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km NW of Hakui, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-27 02:28:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-12 02:18:11 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 298 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us7000nxvu Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxvu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxvu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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