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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kumamoto-shi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kumamoto-shi in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.12 km (4 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gd48. Id of event: us2000gd48. Exact location of event, longitude 130.863 East, latitude 32.7239 North, depth = 7.12 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 22:31:28 / July 24, 2018 @ 10:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 07:31:28 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hiji, Takeo, Dazaifu (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ESE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.863° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7239° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ESE of Kumamoto-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	2018-07-24 22:31:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-25 03:46:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	298	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	0.4	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	99	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	us2000gd48	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gd48	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gd48,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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