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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Takanabe in Japan

Posted by admin on February 4, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.0764S, 131.726WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Takanabe in Japan on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 14/01/25 / 2025-01-14 01:56:33 / January 14, 2025 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pm1p. Id of event: us6000pm1p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:56:33 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 131.726 East, latitude 32.0764 North, depth = 35 km.

Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hitoyoshi (c. 38 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hitoyoshi, Shibushi, Sueyoshichō-ninokata (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.726° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-14 01:56:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-04 05:59:35 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us6000pm1p Id of event.
Event Code 6000pm1p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pm1p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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