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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 29.0458S, 129.2817WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Naze in Japan on Monday. Id of earthquake: us10005zr5. Event ids that are associated: us10005zr5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 02:24:23 / July 4, 2016 @ 2:24 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.53 km (23 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:24:23 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.2817 East, latitude 29.0458 North, depth = 37.53 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km NNW of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.0458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km NNW 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 02:24:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 03:14:32 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 2.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us10005zr5 Id of event.
Event Code 10005zr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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