Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Yonakuni in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 11:31:26 / May 8, 2024 @ 11:31 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mx7n. Unique identifier: us6000mx7n. The temblor was reported at 11:31:26 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.637 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 122.515 East, latitude 24.0626 North, depth = 29.637 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.515° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0626° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.637 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66 km SW 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	2024-05-08 11:31:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-08 11:45:58	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.606	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	71	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	us6000mx7n	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mx7n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mx7n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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