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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kyushu, Japan


Earthquake location 30.0916S, 130.9845WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, Kyushu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Kyushu, Japan. Event id: us6000dfsx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dfsx. The temblor was picked up at 03:39:29 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/02/21 / 2021-02-09 03:39:29 / February 9, 2021 @ 3:39 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 130.9845° East, 30.0916° North, depth 35 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: Kyushu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.9845° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.0916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kyushu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-09 03:39:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-09 04:11:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 385 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 1.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us6000dfsx Id of event.
Event Code 6000dfsx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dfsx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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