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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Ibusuki in Japan


Earthquake location 30.9848S, 130.5356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ibusuki in Japan. Global time and date of event 08/12/15 / 2015-12-08 09:28:03 / December 8, 2015 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. 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: us10004539. Unique identifier: us10004539. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.5356 East, latitude 30.9848 North, depth = 127.01 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:28:03 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 127.01 km (79 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miyakonojō, Satsumasendai, Kushima (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 29 km SSW of Ibusuki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.5356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSW of Ibusuki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-08 09:28:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-08 12:05:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 354 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 0.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10004539 Id of event.
Event Code 10004539 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004539, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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