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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 25.0682S, 142.7603WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.859 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7603 East, latitude 25.0682 North, depth = 25.859 km. Event id: us7000nqqp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqqp. The temblor was picked up at 18:36:50 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 18:36:50 / November 8, 2024 @ 6:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Volcano Islands, Japan region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7603° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0682° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.859 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 2024-11-08 18:36:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-08 22:28:12 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 us7000nqqp Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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