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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 19 km S of Makurazaki, Japan

Posted by admin on February 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.0926S, 130.3196WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Makurazaki in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 130.3196 East, latitude 31.0926 North, depth = 162.41 km. Unique identifier: us600084d3. Ids that are associated to the event: us600084d3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 162.41 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 00:22:29 / February 26, 2020 @ 12:22 am. The temblor was detected at 09:22:29 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Shibushi, Kokubu-matsuki. Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km S of Makurazaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.3196° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km S 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 2020-02-26 00:22:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-26 01:31:01 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 284 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 0.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us600084d3 Id of event.
Event Code 600084d3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600084d3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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