Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 33 km E of Miyazaki-shi, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Miyazaki-shi in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/06/17 / 2017-06-16 13:39:52 / June 16, 2017 @ 1:39 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 131.7773 East, latitude 31.8692 North, depth = 31.36 km. Id of earthquake: us20009mzi. Event ids that are associated: us20009mzi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:39:52 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 31.36 km (19 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokubu-matsuki, Nobeoka, Shibushi (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km E of Miyazaki-shi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.7773° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.8692° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km E 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	2017-06-16 13:39:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-24 06:47:10	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	340	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	1.184	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us20009mzi	Id of event.
Event Code	20009mzi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009mzi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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