Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Volcano Islands, Japan region

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:14:39 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 08:14:39 / July 26, 2024 @ 8:14 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000nj3z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nj3z. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104.395 km (65 miles). Exact location, longitude 143.3003° East, latitude 22.7063° North, depth = 104.395 km.

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

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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: Volcano Islands, Japan region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.3003° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.7063° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.395 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Volcano Islands, Japan region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-26 08:14:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-21 08:12:31	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	271	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	14.476	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us6000nj3z	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nj3z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nj3z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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