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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 14 km SSE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kumamoto-shi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 130.8189° East, latitude 32.678° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:34:18 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 15:34:18 / April 14, 2016 @ 3:34 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us20005i1r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005i1r.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dazaifu, Ōita, Chikushino-shi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourteen 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: 14 km SSE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.8189° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.678° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-14 15:34:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-14 16:23:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	340	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	0.448	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us20005i1r	Id of event.
Event Code	20005i1r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005i1r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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