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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 20 km E of Ichinomiya, Japan

Posted by admin on December 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3371S, 140.5967WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ichinomiya in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 140.5967° East, 35.3371° North, depth 42.201 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.201 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:55:53 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pfy9. Unique identifier: us6000pfy9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/24 / 2024-12-27 16:55:53 / December 27, 2024 @ 4:55 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shimotoda, Kawaguchi, Koshigaya (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km E of Ichinomiya, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5967° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.201 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km E of Ichinomiya, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-27 16:55:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-27 17:12:20 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 326 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.28 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000pfy9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfy9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfy9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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