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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Naze in Japan

Posted by admin on July 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.1942S, 129.356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Naze in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.47 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 02:18:52 / July 4, 2016 @ 2:18 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100062jh. Id of event: us100062jh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 44.47 km, 129.356° East, 29.1942° North. The temblor was picked up at 11:18:52 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze. Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 92 km N of Naze, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km 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 02:18:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-15 04:31:37 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 326 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 2.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us100062jh Id of event.
Event Code 100062jh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062jh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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