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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Nago in Japan


Earthquake location 26.1277S, 129.5329WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 163 km ESE of Nago, Japan (101 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038hh. Id of event: us700038hh. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:11:56 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/19 / 2019-04-11 16:11:56 / April 11, 2019 @ 4:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 129.5329° East, 26.1277° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 163 km ESE of Nago, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.1277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km ESE of Nago, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-11 16:11:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 22:04:58 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 298 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 1.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us700038hh Id of event.
Event Code 700038hh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038hh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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