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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Bonin Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 27.5895S, 140.2113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:14:57 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000bfam. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bfam. Exact location of event, longitude 140.2113 East, latitude 27.5895 North, depth = 350.51 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/20 / 2020-08-25 05:14:57 / August 25, 2020 @ 5:14 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 350.51 km (218 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.5895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 350.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Bonin Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-25 05:14:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-07 02:57:31 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 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 5.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000bfam Id of event.
Event Code 7000bfam An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bfam, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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