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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Yatsushiro in Japan


Earthquake location 32.4713S, 130.6578WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yatsushiro in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/16 / 2016-04-19 18:38:57 / April 19, 2016 @ 6:38 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:38:57 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005jvs. Event ids that are associated: us20005jvs. Exact location, longitude 130.6578° East, latitude 32.4713° North, depth = 4.16 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.16 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isahaya (c. 97 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushikino, Miyakonojō, Takedamachi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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.

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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. 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: 6 km ESE of Yatsushiro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.6578° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Yatsushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-19 18:38:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-19 19:38:09 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 259 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 0.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005jvs Id of event.
Event Code 20005jvs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005jvs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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