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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 30.8916S, 138.6821WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 264 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan (164 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 19:02:53 / April 30, 2016 @ 7:02 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 377.83 km (235 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005cr9. Unique identifier: us10005cr9. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:02:53 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 138.6821 East, latitude 30.8916 North, depth = 377.83 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 264 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.6821° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 377.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km SSW 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 2016-04-30 19:02:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-21 03:48:24 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 2.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 us10005cr9 Id of event.
Event Code 10005cr9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005cr9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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