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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 7 km WSW of Miyazaki, Japan

Posted by admin on August 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.8881S, 131.341WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Miyazaki in Japan. Global time and date of event 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 19:23:33 / August 8, 2024 @ 7:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:23:33 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 19.497 km, 131.341° East, 31.8881° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000niy6. Id of event: us6000niy6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.497 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaseda-shirakame, Uto, Akune. Epicenter of the event was 83 km (51 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Yatsushiro (c. 104 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km WSW of Miyazaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.341° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.8881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.497 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WSW of Miyazaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-08 19:23:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 19:53:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 6.386 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 449 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us6000niy6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000niy6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000niy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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