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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Yudomari in Japan


Earthquake location 29.9824S, 130.5046WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Yudomari in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.552 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 02:34:00 / December 16, 2024 @ 2:34 am. Unique identifier: us7000nz66. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nz66. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.5046 East, latitude 29.9824 North, depth = 60.552 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:34:00 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote. The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 28 km S of Yudomari, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.5046° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.9824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.552 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km S of Yudomari, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-16 02:34:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 02:50:29 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 312 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.523 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 132 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 us7000nz66 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nz66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nz66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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