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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Kihoku-cho in Japan

Posted by admin on March 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.1828S, 132.6498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kihoku-cho in Japan on Monday. Event id: us1000jdg8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jdg8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 41.32 km, 132.6498° East, 33.1828° North. The temblor was picked up at 15:37:51 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.32 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/03/19 / 2019-03-11 06:37:51 / March 11, 2019 @ 6:37 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kōchi-shi (c. 335 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Uwajima (c. 59 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Saijō (c. 58 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yanai, Kitsuki, Ōita (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two 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.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSW of Kihoku-cho, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.6498° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Kihoku-cho, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-11 06:37:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-11 07:12:01 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 369 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 1.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us1000jdg8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jdg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jdg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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