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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.4753S, 123.2759WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/24 / 2024-05-28 14:35:21 / May 28, 2024 @ 2:35 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000n1hj. Event ids that are associated: us6000n1hj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.2759° East, latitude 24.4753° North, depth = 62.141 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.141 km (39 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:35:21 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km E of Yonakuni, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.2759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.4753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.141 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km E 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 2024-05-28 14:35:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-28 18:54:30 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000n1hj Id of event.
Event Code 6000n1hj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n1hj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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