Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 122 km ESE of Namie, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 122 km ESE of Namie, Japan (76 miles) on Thursday. Event id: us10002ya9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002ya9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.45 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 21:32:10 / August 5, 2015 @ 9:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3294 East, latitude 37.1668 North, depth = 28.45 km. The temblor was reported at 06:32:10 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 122 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3294° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	122km ESE 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	2015-08-05 21:32:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-29 04:27:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	259	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	1.41	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us10002ya9	Id of event.
Event Code	10002ya9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002ya9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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