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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Uto in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Uto in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gr9. Unique identifier: us10005gr9. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:04:25 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 08:04:25 / May 12, 2016 @ 8:04 am. Exact location of event, longitude 130.606 East, latitude 32.6898 North, depth = 6.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.41 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōnojō, Imari, Dazaifu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km W of Uto, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.606° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.6898° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km W of Uto, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-12 08:04:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-12 08:23:44	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	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	0.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us10005gr9	Id of event.
Event Code	10005gr9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005gr9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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