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


Earthquake location 24.6332S, 122.7131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 122.7131° East, latitude 24.6332° North, depth = 101.757 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:16:47 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.757 km (63 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 09:16:47 / May 21, 2024 @ 9:16 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000n00b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n00b.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.7131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.757 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km WNW 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 2024-05-21 09:16:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-27 09:33:08 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us6000n00b Id of event.
Event Code 6000n00b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n00b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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