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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.8033S, 123.56WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 19:28:09 / June 15, 2020 @ 7:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:28:09 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000aey1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000aey1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.56 East, latitude 24.8033 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 67 km ENE of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.56° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8033° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km ENE 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 2020-06-15 19:28:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 18:10:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.97 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 us6000aey1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aey1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aey1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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