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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 3 km S of Kumamoto-shi, Japan

Posted by admin on April 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.7565S, 130.7374WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kumamoto-shi in Japan on Saturday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:23:55 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.7374 East, latitude 32.7565 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 22:23:55 / April 15, 2016 @ 10:23 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20005iu7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005iu7.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maebaru, Hiji, Takanabe (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km S of Kumamoto-shi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.7374° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.7565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Kumamoto-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-15 22:23:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-15 22:37:55 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 354 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 0.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us20005iu7 Id of event.
Event Code 20005iu7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005iu7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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