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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tamana in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tamana in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 130.5621° East, 33.0022° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us2000j94a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j94a. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:16:33 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/19 / 2019-01-26 05:16:33 / January 26, 2019 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kitakyūshū, Kanda, Beppu.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 9 km N of Tamana, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.5621° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0022° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km N of Tamana, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-26 05:16:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-26 06:39:44	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	0.291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us2000j94a	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j94a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j94a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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