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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.7864S, 142.1313WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 114 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan (71 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100062mq. Unique identifier: us100062mq. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.75 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 16:54:45 / July 11, 2016 @ 4:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:54:45 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.1313° East, 36.7864° North, depth 29.75 km.

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 114 km ESE of Iwaki, 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 142.1313° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 2016-07-11 16:54:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 19:09:56 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 1.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us100062mq Id of event.
Event Code 100062mq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062mq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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