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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 22.7694S, 144.052WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 144.052° East, 22.7694° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 18:20:26 / August 19, 2020 @ 6:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:20:26 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000bd4c. Event ids that are associated: us7000bd4c.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Volcano Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.7694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 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 2020-08-19 18:20:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 19:41:55 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 312 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 7.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us7000bd4c Id of event.
Event Code 7000bd4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bd4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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