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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 22 km NW of Ichinohe, Japan


Earthquake location 40.3493S, 141.0873WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ichinohe in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 108.233 km (67 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:17:37 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nql1. Unique identifier: us6000nql1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.0873 East, latitude 40.3493 North, depth = 108.233 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 07:17:37 / September 9, 2024 @ 7:17 am.

The epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakunodatemachi, Noshiromachi, Shimokizukuri (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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 NW of Ichinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0873° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.233 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NW of Ichinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-09 07:17:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-09 15:17:06 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us6000nql1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nql1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nql1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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