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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hakui in Japan


Earthquake location 36.9608S, 136.4161WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Hakui in Japan. Event id: us7000nvqg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nvqg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 21:05:43 / December 3, 2024 @ 9:05 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.4161 East, latitude 36.9608 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:05:43 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maruoka, Kamiichi, Uozu.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. 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: 33 km WNW of Hakui, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.4161° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km WNW 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 2024-12-03 21:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 23:45:24 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000nvqg Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvqg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvqg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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