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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2384S, 141.243WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Namie in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007c0i. Id of event: us10007c0i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.84 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:48:10 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 04:48:10 / November 24, 2016 @ 4:48 am. Exact location of event, longitude 141.243 East, latitude 37.2384 North, depth = 24.84 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiroishi, Ōkawara, Daigo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SE of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SE 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 2016-11-24 04:48:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-24 05:06:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 354 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 0.725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 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 us10007c0i Id of event.
Event Code 10007c0i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c0i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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