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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ueki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ueki in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005jbh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005jbh. Exact location of earthquake, 130.7228° East, 32.9307° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 23:35:44 / April 17, 2016 @ 11:35 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:35:44 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanda, Tsurusaki, Ōkuchi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 5 km NE of Ueki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.7228° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9307° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NE of Ueki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-17 23:35:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-18 00:31:02	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	326	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	0.233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us20005jbh	Id of event.
Event Code	20005jbh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005jbh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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