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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 7 km NNE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan

Posted by admin on April 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.8537S, 130.7785WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kumamoto-shi in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.99 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005iwc. Id of event: us20005iwc. Global time and date of event 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 00:48:32 / April 16, 2016 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 130.7785° East, 32.8537° North, depth 9.99 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:48:32 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitakyūshū, Akune, Nakama.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNE of Kumamoto-shi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.7785° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8537° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNE 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 2016-04-16 00:48:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-16 01:06:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 449 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 0.282 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 57 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 us20005iwc Id of event.
Event Code 20005iwc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005iwc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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