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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

Posted by admin on April 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0351S, 141.299WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 141.299° East, 37.0351° North, depth 44.33 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:24:18 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.33 km (28 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 23:24:18 / April 17, 2016 @ 11:24 pm. Unique identifier: us20005jbc. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005jbc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Funaishikawa, Kōriyama, Daigo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Funaishikawa (c. 35 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km E of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km E of Iwaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-17 23:24:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-24 03:29:25 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 0.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us20005jbc Id of event.
Event Code 20005jbc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005jbc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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