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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Bonin Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 27.2979S, 140.2167WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 384.56 km, 140.2167° East, 27.2979° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/08/20 / 2020-08-25 04:40:08 / August 25, 2020 @ 4:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 384.56 km (239 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:40:08 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000bcfl. Event ids that are associated: us7000bcfl.

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. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: Bonin Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2167° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.2979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 384.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Bonin 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 2020-08-25 04:40:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 01:14:22 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 5.808 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 46 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 us7000bcfl Id of event.
Event Code 7000bcfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bcfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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