Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Nichinan in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 47.757 km, 131.6877° East, 31.5756° North. Event id: us6000ph5y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph5y. The temblor was detected at 18:58:20 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/12/24 / 2024-12-13 18:58:20 / December 13, 2024 @ 6:58 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.757 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hamanoichi, Kokubu-matsuki, Kanoya (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km E of Nichinan, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.6877° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5756° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.757 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km E of Nichinan, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-13 18:58:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-08 19:25:59	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	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.057	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us6000ph5y	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ph5y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ph5y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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