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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, Bonin Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 28.6911S, 139.9374WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Bonin Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Unique identifier: us7000cs4d. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cs4d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 139.9374 East, latitude 28.6911 North, depth = 435.13 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:44:36 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/12/20 / 2020-12-14 19:44:36 / December 14, 2020 @ 7:44 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 435.13 km (270 miles).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Bonin Islands, Japan region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9374° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 435.13 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 2020-12-14 19:44:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-22 19:09:45 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 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 2.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us7000cs4d Id of event.
Event Code 7000cs4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cs4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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