Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Takanabe in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Takanabe in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 04:39:22 / May 13, 2020 @ 4:39 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:39:22 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009ll2. Unique identifier: us70009ll2. Exact location, longitude 131.7221° East, latitude 31.9744° North, depth = 35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibushi, Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Kushima (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 27 km SE of Takanabe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.7221° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.9744° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SE of Takanabe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-13 04:39:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-21 03:21:35	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	259	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	1.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us70009ll2	Id of event.
Event Code	70009ll2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009ll2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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