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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 2 km NNW of Yawata, Japan


Earthquake location 34.8893S, 135.6921WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Yawata in Japan. Unique identifier: us60006ax6. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006ax6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 135.6921° East, latitude 34.8893° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 16:07:14 / November 12, 2019 @ 4:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 01:07:14 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suzuka, Kakogawachō-honmachi, Iwade. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 2 km NNW of Yawata, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.6921° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Yawata, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-12 16:07:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-13 00:00:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 178 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 1.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60006ax6 Id of event.
Event Code 60006ax6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ax6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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