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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 23.9029S, 123.5088WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. Id of earthquake: us2000652f. Event ids that are associated: us2000652f. The temblor was detected at 08:21:30 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 123.5088° East, 23.9029° North, depth 38.49 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.49 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/16 / 2016-06-12 00:21:30 / June 12, 2016 @ 12:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km SE of Yonakuni, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5088° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9029° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SE 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 2016-06-12 00:21:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 05:27:59 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 298 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 0.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us2000652f Id of event.
Event Code 2000652f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000652f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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