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Light earthquake 4 mag, 46 km ENE of Noda, Japan


Earthquake location 40.2366S, 142.3379WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Noda in Japan on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.403 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 142.3379° East, latitude 40.2366° North, depth = 55.403 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pfe4. Unique identifier: us6000pfe4. The temblor was detected at 02:29:56 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 02:29:56 / December 24, 2024 @ 2:29 am.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Hachinohe, Miyako.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km ENE of Noda, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2366° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.403 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km ENE of Noda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-24 02:29:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-24 02:50:59 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 246 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us6000pfe4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfe4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfe4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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