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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 29.2387S, 129.4747WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Naze in Japan on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 02:14:30 / July 4, 2016 @ 2:14 am. The temblor was detected at 11:14:30 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.32 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 129.4747° East, 29.2387° North, depth 39.32 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005zqf. Unique identifier: us10005zqf. 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 Naze (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 96 km N of Naze, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km N 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 2016-07-04 02:14:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 03:01:50 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 340 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 2.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10005zqf Id of event.
Event Code 10005zqf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zqf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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