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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 126 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan


Earthquake location 36.7354S, 142.2435WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 126 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan (78 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.81 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 142.2435 East, latitude 36.7354 North, depth = 24.81 km. The temblor was detected at 15:11:34 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/05/16 / 2016-05-22 06:11:34 / May 22, 2016 @ 6:11 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10005j71. Event ids that are associated: us10005j71.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 126 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km ESE 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 2016-05-22 06:11:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 08:30:18 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 1.619 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005j71 Id of event.
Event Code 10005j71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005j71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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