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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on July 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4147S, 141.7115WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Namie in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 22:16:35 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.17 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 141.7115 East, latitude 37.4147 North, depth = 39.17 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 13:16:35 / July 14, 2015 @ 1:16 pm. Id of earthquake: us20002xdl. Event ids that are associated: us20002xdl.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km E of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7115° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4147° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km E of Namie, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-14 13:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-14 16:30:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 341 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 0.86 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us20002xdl Id of event.
Event Code 20002xdl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xdl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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