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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Kunisaki-shi in Japan

Posted by admin on July 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.5167S, 131.754WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kunisaki-shi in Japan. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:39:58 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.754 East, latitude 33.5167 North, depth = 78.97 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 05:39:58 / July 1, 2016 @ 5:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.97 km (49 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005z0q. Unique identifier: us10005z0q.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yamaguchi-shi (c. 145 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanushimarumachi-toyoki, Matsuyama, Iizuka. Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSE of Kunisaki-shi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.754° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Kunisaki-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 2016-07-01 05:39:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 05:58:19 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 354 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 0.832 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us10005z0q Id of event.
Event Code 10005z0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005z0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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