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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Miyazaki-shi in Japan

Posted by admin on December 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.7707S, 131.8507WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Miyazaki-shi in Japan on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 131.8507° East, 31.7707° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 16:57:30 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100074a1. Ids that are associated to the event: us100074a1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/11/16 / 2016-11-05 07:57:30 / November 5, 2016 @ 7:57 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nobeoka, Kobayashi, Sueyoshichō-ninokata.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km ESE of Miyazaki-shi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.8507° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km ESE of Miyazaki-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-05 07:57:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-01 12:32:22 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 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 1.22 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us100074a1 Id of event.
Event Code 100074a1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100074a1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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