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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on September 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4943S, 141.7563WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Namie in Japan on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 11:57:36 / September 29, 2016 @ 11:57 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.32 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10006tsc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006tsc. Exact location of event, longitude 141.7563 East, latitude 37.4943 North, depth = 9.32 km. The temblor was reported at 20:57:36 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwaki, Namie.

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km E of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7563° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2016-09-29 11:57:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-29 12:20:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us10006tsc Id of event.
Event Code 10006tsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006tsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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