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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan

Posted by admin on February 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.6559S, 122.8766WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 24 km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan (15 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 12/02/16 / 2016-02-12 14:34:29 / February 12, 2016 @ 2:34 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 82.99 km, 122.8766° East, 24.6559° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.99 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200050l6. Id of event: us200050l6. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:34:29 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

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 six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-three 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 24 km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNW 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 2016-02-12 14:34:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-26 08:51:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 1.263 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 120 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 us200050l6 Id of event.
Event Code 200050l6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200050l6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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