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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 42 km SE of Nichinan, Japan


Earthquake location 31.3103S, 131.6547WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.06 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 38.06 km, 131.6547° East, 31.3103° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008i3q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008i3q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/17 / 2017-02-07 07:21:32 / February 7, 2017 @ 7:21 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:21:32 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Takanabe, Tarumizu, Tsuma (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SE of Nichinan, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6547° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SE of Nichinan, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-07 07:21:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-07 07:37:31 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 298 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 1.046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us20008i3q Id of event.
Event Code 20008i3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008i3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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