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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.3939S, 131.0084WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:18:17 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 45.28 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.0084° East, 30.3939° North, depth 45.28 km. Unique identifier: us2000hcmp. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hcmp. Global time and date of event 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 14:18:17 / September 11, 2018 @ 2:18 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nishinoomote.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 37 km S of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.0084° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.3939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-11 14:18:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-11 15:12:15 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 326 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 2.725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us2000hcmp Id of event.
Event Code 2000hcmp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hcmp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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