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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Kyushu, Japan

Posted by admin on April 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.6919S, 130.8055WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes Kyushu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Kyushu, Japan on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 130.8055° East, latitude 32.6919° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005i2q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005i2q. The temblor was reported at 16:53:02 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 16:53:02 / April 14, 2016 @ 4:53 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tsurusaki, Umi, Hiji. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Kyushu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.8055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.6919° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kyushu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-14 16:53:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 17:48:38 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us20005i2q Id of event.
Event Code 20005i2q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005i2q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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