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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kuji in Japan


Earthquake location 40.3839S, 142.0024WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Kuji in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 12:00:25 / December 9, 2024 @ 12:00 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nxab. Unique identifier: us7000nxab. Exact location, longitude 142.0024° East, latitude 40.3839° North, depth = 37.835 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.835 km (24 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:00:25 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Ichinohe, Misawa. The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 29 km NE of Kuji, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3839° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.835 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km NE of Kuji, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-09 12:00:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-07 14:22:03 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 312 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000nxab Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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