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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Beppu in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Beppu in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 22:11:40 / April 15, 2016 @ 10:11 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:11:40 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 131.4025 East, latitude 33.2822 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us20005iu4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005iu4.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saga-shi, Fukuma, Shingū (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 8 km W of Beppu, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.4025° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2822° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km W of Beppu, 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 22:11:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-15 22:28:28	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	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	0.467	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us20005iu4	Id of event.
Event Code	20005iu4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005iu4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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