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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.5038S, 122.4169WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Thursday. Unique identifier: us6000a9np. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a9np. Exact location of event, longitude 122.4169 East, latitude 24.5038 North, depth = 80.76 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 01:38:26 / June 11, 2020 @ 1:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:38:26 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.76 km (50 miles).

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 59 km W of Yonakuni, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4169° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 km W 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 2020-06-11 01:38:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-11 02:10:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 0.542 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000a9np Id of event.
Event Code 6000a9np An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9np, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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