Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Iwo Jima in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 294 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan (183 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:23:33 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 143.7718 East, latitude 23.3438 North, depth = 50.46 km. Id of earthquake: us1000gg34. Event ids that are associated: us1000gg34. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 16:23:33 / August 17, 2018 @ 4:23 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.46 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel the quake?

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: 294 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

Iwo Jima Japan

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.7718° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.3438° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	294km ESE of Iwo 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	2018-08-17 16:23:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-30 20:27:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	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	4.002	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us1000gg34	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gg34	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gg34,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Iwo Jima in Japan

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information