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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on July 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3535S, 142.0263WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 13:47:10 / June 17, 2016 @ 1:47 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.33 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006677. Id of event: us20006677. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:47:10 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.0263 East, latitude 37.3535 North, depth = 37.33 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namie (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km E of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0263° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 2016-06-17 13:47:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-02 07:52:54 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 284 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 1.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us20006677 Id of event.
Event Code 20006677 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006677, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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