Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Hakui in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hakui in Japan on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 16:48:15 / November 26, 2024 @ 4:48 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.391 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 136.4569 East, latitude 37.0084 North, depth = 23.391 km. The temblor was reported at 16:48:15 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxuz. Id of event: us7000nxuz.

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nyūzen, Mikuni, Kamiichi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.4569° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0084° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.391 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 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	2024-11-26 16:48:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-19 17:45:12	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.477	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us7000nxuz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nxuz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nxuz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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