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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 32.2507S, 138.1357WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 181 km WSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan (112 miles). Global time and date of event 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 05:27:57 / November 20, 2019 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.1357 East, latitude 32.2507 North, depth = 362.18 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 362.18 km (225 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:27:57 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006a7k. Unique identifier: us70006a7k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 181 km WSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan. 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 138.1357° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 362.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km WSW 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 2019-11-20 05:27:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-20 06:25:10 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 1.657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us70006a7k Id of event.
Event Code 70006a7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006a7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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