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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, Izu Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 29.0623S, 139.2932WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 139.2932 East, latitude 29.0623 North, depth = 430.3 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003v3j. Id of event: us70003v3j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:39:17 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/06/19 / 2019-06-04 04:39:17 / June 4, 2019 @ 4:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 430.3 km (267 miles).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Izu Islands, Japan region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.2932° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.0623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 430.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Izu 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 2019-06-04 04:39:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-04 04:59:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 611 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 3.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003v3j Id of event.
Event Code 70003v3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003v3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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