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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Naze in Japan

Posted by admin on March 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.1612S, 129.6886WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Naze in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 129.6886° East, 28.1612° North, depth 48.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:00:32 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.07 km (30 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004wuw. Unique identifier: us10004wuw. Global time and date of event 11/03/16 / 2016-03-11 20:00:32 / March 11, 2016 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 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. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 30 km SE of Naze, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-11 20:00:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-11 22:47:27 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 298 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 1.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us10004wuw Id of event.
Event Code 10004wuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004wuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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