Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Yunomae in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yunomae in Japan on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 159.24 km (99 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/24 / 2024-11-22 09:48:18 / November 22, 2024 @ 9:48 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nwle. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwle. Exact location, longitude 130.9029° East, latitude 32.4614° North, depth = 159.24 km. The temblor was detected at 09:48:18 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Satsumasendai, Yanagawa, Sueyoshichō-ninokata. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 21 km NNW of Yunomae, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.9029° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4614° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	159.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NNW of Yunomae, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-22 09:48:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-19 14:28:21	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.023	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us7000nwle	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nwle	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nwle,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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