Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Miyazaki-shi in Japan

A earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Miyazaki-shi in Japan on Friday. 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: us70003j46. Unique identifier: us70003j46. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/19 / 2019-05-09 23:48:42 / May 9, 2019 @ 11:48 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.97 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.8029° East, 31.8039° North, depth 23.97 km. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:48:42 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saiki, Ibusuki, Kagoshima-shi.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.8029° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.8039° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km ESE of Miyazaki-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	2019-05-09 23:48:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-10 00:17:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.416	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	613	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	1.532	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70003j46	Id of event.
Event Code	70003j46	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003j46,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

131.8029° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

31.8039° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

23.97 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

37km ESE of Miyazaki-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

2019-05-09 23:48:42

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-05-10 00:17:25

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

4.1

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

5.416

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

613

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.532

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.88 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70003j46

Id of event.

Event Code

70003j46

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70003j46,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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