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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 23.4422S, 144.0087WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000gep6. Event ids that are associated: us1000gep6. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:49:07 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 18:49:07 / August 16, 2018 @ 6:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 144.0087 East, latitude 23.4422 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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 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: Volcano Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.0087° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Volcano Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-16 18:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 17:01:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 3.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us1000gep6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gep6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gep6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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