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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.5719S, 141.8681WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 00:13:45 / March 1, 2016 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:13:45 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004tqn. Event ids that are associated: us10004tqn. Exact location of event, depth 53.51 km, 141.8681° East, 37.5719° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 53.51 km (33 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namie (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km E of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8681° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5719° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2016-03-01 00:13:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 03:15:20 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 0.905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us10004tqn Id of event.
Event Code 10004tqn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004tqn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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