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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 101 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan


Earthquake location 25.6275S, 141.7236WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 101 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan (63 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:38:30 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/15 / 2015-06-20 14:38:30 / June 20, 2015 @ 2:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 141.7236 East, latitude 25.6275 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10002na5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002na5.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7236° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6275° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-20 14:38:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-12 20:27:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us10002na5 Id of event.
Event Code 10002na5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002na5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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