Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 4 km W of Kobayashi, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kobayashi in Japan on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004fld. Unique identifier: us10004fld. The temblor was picked up at 21:25:55 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/16 / 2016-01-13 12:25:55 / January 13, 2016 @ 12:25 pm. Exact location of event, depth 114.42 km, 130.9355° East, 31.9872° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 114.42 km (71 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kumamoto, Ushibuka, Ibusuki.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.9355° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.9872° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	114.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km W of Kobayashi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-13 12:25:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-10 08:54:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	298	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.629	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 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	us10004fld	Id of event.
Event Code	10004fld	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004fld,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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