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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Hita in Japan

Posted by admin on March 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.3176S, 130.8223WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hita in Japan. Unique identifier: us60008gsp. Ids that are associated to the event: us60008gsp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 11:42:20 / March 16, 2020 @ 11:42 am. The temblor was reported at 20:42:20 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.8223 East, latitude 33.3176 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Onoda, Ureshino, Tsurusaki (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 10 km W of Hita, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.8223° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.3176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km W of Hita, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-16 11:42:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-16 21:31:24 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 222 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 1.83 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60008gsp Id of event.
Event Code 60008gsp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008gsp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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