Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Hachinohe in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 141.9279° East, 40.6229° North, depth 68.644 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.644 km (43 miles). Global time and date of event 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 03:41:04 / November 27, 2024 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nxw4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxw4. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:04 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Misawa, Hachinohe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 38 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.9279° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.6229° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.644 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-27 03:41:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-12 03:00:14	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.677	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	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	us7000nxw4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nxw4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nxw4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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