Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Hakui in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Hakui in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.315 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude 136.3865° East, latitude 36.9627° North, depth = 8.315 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:36:23 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/24 / 2024-12-28 19:36:23 / December 28, 2024 @ 7:36 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000pg6t. Event ids that are associated: us6000pg6t.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kamiichi, Uozu, Maruoka. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 36 km WNW of Hakui, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.3865° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9627° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.315 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 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	2024-12-28 19:36:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-17 00:37:57	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.518	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us6000pg6t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pg6t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pg6t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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