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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.7959S, 123.2018WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 km NNE of Yonakuni, Japan (25 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000aew6. Event ids that are associated: us6000aew6. The temblor was detected at 23:52:42 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.2018 East, latitude 24.7959 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 23:52:42 / June 14, 2020 @ 11:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 41 km NNE of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.2018° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.7959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km NNE 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 2020-06-14 23:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-20 01:51:39 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 259 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 0.37 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us6000aew6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aew6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aew6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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