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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 44 km WNW of Hakui, Japan


Earthquake location 37.0071S, 136.3025WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Hakui in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 136.3025° East, 37.0071° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:01:22 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 06:01:22 / November 27, 2024 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000nxw0. Event ids that are associated: us7000nxw0.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yatsuomachi-higashikumisaka, Mikuni, Toyama-shi (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km WNW of Hakui, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.3025° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 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 2024-11-27 06:01:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-26 07:35:05 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us7000nxw0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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