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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Shimoda in Japan


Earthquake location 32.5785S, 139.3145WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 235 km S of Shimoda, Japan (146 miles) on Friday. Event id: us7000mx8h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mx8h. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:45 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 212.608 km (132 miles). Exact location, longitude 139.3145° East, latitude 32.5785° North, depth = 212.608 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/06/24 / 2024-06-28 18:19:45 / June 28, 2024 @ 6:19 pm UTC/GMT.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 235 km S of Shimoda, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3145° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 212.608 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235 km S of Shimoda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-28 18:19:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-23 22:02:38 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 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us7000mx8h Id of event.
Event Code 7000mx8h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mx8h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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