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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kyushu, Japan

Posted by admin on June 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.3566S, 131.6286WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Kyushu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Kyushu, Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 131.6286° East, latitude 31.3566° North, depth = 35 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:56:41 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000erl0. Id of event: us1000erl0. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 19:56:41 / June 11, 2018 @ 7:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kajiki, Ibusuki, Hamanoichi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: Kyushu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6286° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3566° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kyushu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-11 19:56:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-22 00:17:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 5.376 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 117 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 us1000erl0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000erl0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000erl0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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