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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Beppu in Japan

Posted by admin on April 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.2822S, 131.4025WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Beppu in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 22:11:40 / April 15, 2016 @ 10:11 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:11:40 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 131.4025 East, latitude 33.2822 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us20005iu4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005iu4.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saga-shi, Fukuma, Shingū (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km W of Beppu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.4025° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2822° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km W 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 22:11:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-15 22:28:28 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 369 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 0.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20005iu4 Id of event.
Event Code 20005iu4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005iu4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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