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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 34 km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan


Earthquake location 30.8795S, 131.3158WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.73 km (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.3158° East, 30.8795° North, depth 28.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20004hf6. Event ids that are associated: us20004hf6. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:53:57 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 21:53:57 / December 15, 2015 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyakonojō, Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Tarumizu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sueyoshichō-ninokata (c. 20 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tarumizu (c. 19 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 34 km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ENE 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 2015-12-15 21:53:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-15 22:28:21 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 326 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 0.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20004hf6 Id of event.
Event Code 20004hf6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004hf6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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