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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Setaka in Japan

Posted by admin on May 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.208S, 130.4648WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Setaka in Japan on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eaww. Id of event: us1000eaww. The temblor was detected at 01:25:54 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 130.4648° East, 33.208° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/18 / 2018-05-23 16:25:54 / May 23, 2018 @ 4:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirado, Kanda, Nakatsu. Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 6 km N of Setaka, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.4648° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.208° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Setaka, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-23 16:25:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-23 21:36:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 211 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 0.355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us1000eaww Id of event.
Event Code 1000eaww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eaww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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