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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Iwo Jima in Japan


Earthquake location 24.0128S, 142.0853WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 114 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan (71 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:36:16 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.68 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10004sel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004sel. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.0853 East, latitude 24.0128 North, depth = 55.68 km. Global time and date of event 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 19:36:16 / February 24, 2016 @ 7:36 pm UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan. This data 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 142.0853° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km SE 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 2016-02-24 19:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 20:16:56 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 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 3.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10004sel Id of event.
Event Code 10004sel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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