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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.2667S, 131.1017WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/16 / 2016-04-26 16:59:44 / April 26, 2016 @ 4:59 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10005bnt. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005bnt. Exact location of earthquake, 131.1017° East, 30.2667° North, depth 13.45 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.45 km (8 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:59:44 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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.

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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: 52 km S of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.1017° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.2667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km S of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-26 16:59:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-26 19:50:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 298 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 1.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us10005bnt Id of event.
Event Code 10005bnt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bnt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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