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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Nichinan in Japan


Earthquake location 31.3073S, 131.6172WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. The temblor was detected at 17:49:08 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/11/16 / 2016-11-10 08:49:08 / November 10, 2016 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 22.35 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 131.6172 East, latitude 31.3073 North, depth = 22.35 km. Id of earthquake: us100078t8. Event ids that are associated: us100078t8.

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokubu-matsuki, Takanabe, Ibusuki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 40 km SE of Nichinan, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SE of Nichinan, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-10 08:49:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-03 09:45:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 1.015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us100078t8 Id of event.
Event Code 100078t8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100078t8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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