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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Hachijo-jima in Japan

Posted by admin on February 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.9337S, 140.7466WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 155 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (96 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 140.7466 East, latitude 31.9337 North, depth = 59.58 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:13:32 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 11:13:32 / January 15, 2020 @ 11:13 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.58 km (37 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007i8l. Unique identifier: us60007i8l.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 155 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155km SE 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 2020-01-15 11:13:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 08:43:28 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 1.417 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us60007i8l Id of event.
Event Code 60007i8l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007i8l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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