Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Uto in Japan

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Uto in Japan on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us10007ctn. Event ids that are associated: us10007ctn. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:10:15 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.54 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/16 / 2016-11-23 11:10:15 / November 23, 2016 @ 11:10 am. Exact location of event, longitude 130.5841 East, latitude 32.7642 North, depth = 12.54 km.

Event epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dazaifu, Ushibuka, Chikushino-shi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NW of Uto, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.5841° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7642° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NW 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	2016-11-23 11:10:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-27 22:22:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	189	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	0.435	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10007ctn	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ctn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ctn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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