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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.4538S, 123.2569WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:38:01 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 21:38:01 / March 25, 2020 @ 9:38 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.11 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008iyp. Unique identifier: us70008iyp. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.2569 East, latitude 24.4538 North, depth = 66.11 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km E of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.2569° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.4538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km E of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-25 21:38:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 22:07:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 284 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 0.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70008iyp Id of event.
Event Code 70008iyp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008iyp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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