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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 22.5936S, 144.1446WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.92 km (21 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:13:39 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000ng84. Event ids that are associated: us7000ng84. Global time and date of event 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 04:13:39 / September 15, 2024 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 144.1446 East, latitude 22.5936 North, depth = 33.92 km.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: Volcano Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.1446° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.5936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.92 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 2024-09-15 04:13:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-26 02:01:36 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000ng84 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ng84 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ng84, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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