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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Nishinoomote in Japan


Earthquake location 30.92S, 131.809WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:59:47 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 16:59:47 / February 5, 2019 @ 4:59 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jdp9. Unique identifier: us2000jdp9. Exact location of earthquake, 131.809° East, 30.92° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Shibushi (c. 18 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibushi, Nichinan, Kushima (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 80 km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.809° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.92° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-05 16:59:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-05 17:16:33 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 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 2.336 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us2000jdp9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jdp9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jdp9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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