Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Iwo Jima in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 196 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan (122 miles) on Sunday. Unique identifier: us10004gbl. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004gbl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.4 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/01/16 / 2016-01-17 12:03:55 / January 17, 2016 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:03:55 / 10:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 143.1149° East, 24.0836° North, depth 28.4 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 196 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.1149° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0836° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	196km ESE of Iwo 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	2016-01-17 12:03:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-29 11:51:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	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	3.114	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us10004gbl	Id of event.
Event Code	10004gbl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004gbl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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