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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.6336S, 131.2539WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 131.2539° East, latitude 30.6336° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:47:01 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 21:47:01 / October 19, 2015 @ 9:47 pm. Id of earthquake: us10003r09. Event ids that are associated: us10003r09.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Shibushi (c. 18 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushima, Shibushi, Kanoya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.2539° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-19 21:47:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 02:28:38 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 312 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 1.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003r09 Id of event.
Event Code 10003r09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003r09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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