Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Hakui in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hakui in Japan on Tuesday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:33:00 / 2:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxut. Id of event: us7000nxut. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 14:33:00 / November 26, 2024 @ 2:33 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.4093 East, latitude 36.9807 North, depth = 17.001 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.001 km (11 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maruoka, Kamiichi, Uozu (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighteen 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.4093° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9807° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.001 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 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	2024-11-26 14:33:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-18 22:26:26	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	271	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.505	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	43	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	us7000nxut	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nxut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nxut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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