Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Yomitan in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Yomitan in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 10:22:38 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/24 / 2024-06-06 10:22:38 / June 6, 2024 @ 10:22 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ms6r. Unique identifier: us7000ms6r. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.242 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.6382 East, latitude 26.5625 North, depth = 50.242 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Naha-shi. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days 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.

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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. 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: 20 km NNW of Yomitan, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.6382° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.5625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.242 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km NNW of Yomitan, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-06 10:22:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-03 05:44:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.629	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us7000ms6r	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ms6r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ms6r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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