Light earthquake 4.7 mag, Bonin Islands, Japan region

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000blv9. Unique identifier: us7000blv9. Exact location, longitude 139.8487° East, latitude 28.1788° North, depth = 468.39 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 468.39 km (291 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:55:46 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 00:55:46 / September 8, 2020 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.8487° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.1788° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	468.39 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	2020-09-08 00:55:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-12 04:49:26	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	340	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	4.92	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us7000blv9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000blv9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000blv9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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