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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Bonin Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 28.6461S, 139.5924WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/15 / 2015-12-24 21:07:21 / December 24, 2015 @ 9:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 139.5924° East, 28.6461° North, depth 416.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 416.9 km (259 miles). Unique identifier: us100049d4. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049d4. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:07:21 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.5924° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 416.9 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 2015-12-24 21:07:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-15 03:21:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 246 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 2.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us100049d4 Id of event.
Event Code 100049d4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049d4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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