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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.1672S, 122.544WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.6 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 17:50:50 / May 30, 2016 @ 5:50 pm. Unique identifier: us20005z82. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005z82. The temblor was detected at 01:50:50 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 122.544° East, latitude 24.1672° North, depth = 44.6 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian. Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 56 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SW 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 2016-05-30 17:50:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-02 14:36:08 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 326 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 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us20005z82 Id of event.
Event Code 20005z82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005z82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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