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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Bonin Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 28.3305S, 138.8113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 21:56:47 / August 19, 2016 @ 9:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.8113 East, latitude 28.3305 North, depth = 509.19 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 509.19 km (316 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10006ghe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ghe. The temblor was detected at 06:56:47 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Bonin Islands, Japan region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.8113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.3305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 509.19 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 2016-08-19 21:56:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-03 05:09:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 3.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us10006ghe Id of event.
Event Code 10006ghe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ghe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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