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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.8156S, 122.5714WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 122.5714° East, 24.8156° North. The temblor was picked up at 07:46:33 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dgx6. Unique identifier: us6000dgx6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/02/21 / 2021-02-12 07:46:33 / February 12, 2021 @ 7:46 am.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Keelung, Yilan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km NW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km NW 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 2021-02-12 07:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-12 08:34:12 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 326 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 0.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dgx6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgx6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgx6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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