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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.8131S, 123.2922WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 48 km NE of Yonakuni, Japan (30 miles) on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 02:49:06 / June 15, 2020 @ 2:49 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:49:06 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 123.2922 East, latitude 24.8131 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000aex5. Unique identifier: us6000aex5. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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 thirty, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km NE of Yonakuni, Japan. This data 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 123.2922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km NE 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 2020-06-15 02:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-22 01:05:59 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 0.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000aex5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aex5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aex5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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