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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Makurazaki in Japan

Posted by admin on December 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.1354S, 130.4184WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Makurazaki in Japan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 130.4184° East, 31.1354° North, depth 159.5 km. Event id: us1000hrlc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hrlc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/18 / 2018-11-14 14:05:18 / November 14, 2018 @ 2:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:05:18 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 159.5 km (99 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyakonojō, Kushima, Sueyoshichō-ninokata (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 17 km SSE of Makurazaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.4184° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Makurazaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-14 14:05:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-14 09:51:02 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 2.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us1000hrlc Id of event.
Event Code 1000hrlc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hrlc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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