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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Koseda in Japan


Earthquake location 30.125S, 130.9762WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Koseda in Japan on Tuesday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:51 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.9762 East, latitude 30.125 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/02/21 / 2021-02-09 03:41:51 / February 9, 2021 @ 3:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000di2s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000di2s.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SE of Koseda, Japan. This information 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 130.9762° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km SE of Koseda, 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 03:41:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-17 01:52:05 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 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 1.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000di2s Id of event.
Event Code 6000di2s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000di2s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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