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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 32.1759S, 141.8829WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 219 km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (136 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004wx7. Event ids that are associated: us10004wx7. Exact location of event, longitude 141.8829 East, latitude 32.1759 North, depth = 24.68 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:24:07 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.68 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 00:24:07 / March 12, 2016 @ 12:24 am.

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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 219 km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8829° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.1759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 219km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-12 00:24:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 01:24:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 326 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 1.981 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 130 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 us10004wx7 Id of event.
Event Code 10004wx7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004wx7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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