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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Beppu in Japan


Earthquake location 33.2154S, 131.3315WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Beppu in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.16 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, depth 13.16 km, 131.3315° East, 33.2154° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:49:18 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005imv. Event ids that are associated: us20005imv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 17:49:18 / April 15, 2016 @ 5:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saga-shi, Hōfu, Fukuoka-shi (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km WSW of Beppu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Beppu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-15 17:49:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-15 21:59:03 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 0.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us20005imv Id of event.
Event Code 20005imv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005imv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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