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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.4144S, 130.9689WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.67 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 130.9689° East, latitude 30.4144° North, depth = 45.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 15:08:50 / September 11, 2018 @ 3:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:08:50 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hcnz. Id of event: us2000hcnz.

Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ibusuki, Nishinoomote.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 35 km S of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.9689° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.4144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 15:08:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-11 15:54:40 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 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 2.703 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us2000hcnz Id of event.
Event Code 2000hcnz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hcnz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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