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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 160 km SSE of Naze, Japan


Earthquake location 27.0371S, 130.1386WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 160 km SSE of Naze, Japan (99 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.1386 East, latitude 27.0371 North, depth = 32.89 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 03:23:51 / June 8, 2016 @ 3:23 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000649i. Event ids that are associated: us2000649i. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.89 km (20 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:23:51 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixteen 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 quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 160 km SSE of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.1386° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.0371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km SSE of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-08 03:23:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 02:23:12 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 298 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 1.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000649i Id of event.
Event Code 2000649i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000649i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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