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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 25.6202S, 142.3968WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Saturday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:17:53 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 142.3968° East, latitude 25.6202° North, depth = 58.273 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 15:17:53 / November 9, 2024 @ 3:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.273 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000nqwb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqwb.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3968° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.273 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 2024-11-09 15:17:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-09 15:54:28 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 369 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us7000nqwb Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqwb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqwb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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