Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 63 km WSW of Yonakuni, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 122.4255° East, latitude 24.24° North, depth = 66.174 km. Global time and date of event 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 01:29:17 / December 19, 2024 @ 1:29 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phib. Id of event: us6000phib. The temblor was detected at 01:29:17 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.174 km (41 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.4255° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.24° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.174 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km WSW 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	2024-12-19 01:29:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-11 01:27:13	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	271	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.58	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us6000phib	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phib	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phib,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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