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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.7007S, 131.3839WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 19:41:50 / April 29, 2017 @ 7:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10008pp1. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008pp1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 131.3839° East, 30.7007° North, depth 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:41:50 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shibushi (c. 18 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ibusuki, Kanoya, Shibushi. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirteen 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: 36 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3839° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km E 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 2017-04-29 19:41:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-11 22:55:56 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 271 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 1.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us10008pp1 Id of event.
Event Code 10008pp1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008pp1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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