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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Omuta in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Omuta in Japan on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 09:10:28 / January 3, 2019 @ 9:10 am. Event id: us2000j00n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j00n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:10:28 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.4686 East, latitude 32.9699 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Izumi, Yukuhashi, Nakatsu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 7 km SSE of Omuta, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.4686° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9699° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE of Omuta, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-03 09:10:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-03 09:40:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	341	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	0.376	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us2000j00n	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j00n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j00n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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