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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 40 km ESE of Nobeoka, Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Nobeoka in Japan. Unique identifier: us2000fvs6. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fvs6. Exact location of event, depth 35.8 km, 132.0459° East, 32.4142° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:38:47 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 11:38:47 / July 3, 2018 @ 11:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.8 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sukumo, Takedamachi, Usuki. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Usuki (c. 35 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sukumo (c. 25 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 40 km ESE of Nobeoka, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	132.0459° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4142° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km ESE of Nobeoka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-03 11:38:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-03 12:03:09	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	312	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	1.213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us2000fvs6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fvs6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fvs6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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