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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 40 km N of Yonakuni, Japan


Earthquake location 24.8277S, 123.0293WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 40 km N of Yonakuni, Japan (25 miles). Global time and date of event 16/10/15 / 2015-10-16 17:01:53 / October 16, 2015 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.0293° East, latitude 24.8277° North, depth = 113.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.42 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:01:53 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003p6l. Id of event: us10003p6l.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km N of Yonakuni, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.0293° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km N of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-16 17:01:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 18:58:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 0.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10003p6l Id of event.
Event Code 10003p6l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003p6l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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