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


Earthquake location 28.9276S, 138.5089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 23:41:59 / November 29, 2017 @ 11:41 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000bj5j. Event ids that are associated: us1000bj5j. The temblor was reported at 08:41:59 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). 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 504.73 km (314 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 138.5089 East, latitude 28.9276 North, depth = 504.73 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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 138.5089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.9276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 504.73 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 2017-11-29 23:41:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 00:30:44 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 3.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us1000bj5j Id of event.
Event Code 1000bj5j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bj5j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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