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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 37 km SE of Namie, Japan


Earthquake location 37.2304S, 141.2808WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Namie in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.2808 East, latitude 37.2304 North, depth = 35.24 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 16:55:58 / November 24, 2016 @ 4:55 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.24 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:55:58 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007c4d. Id of event: us10007c4d.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daigo, Watari, Kakuda. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 37 km SE of Namie, 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 141.2808° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 16:55:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-26 15:28:09 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 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 0.747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us10007c4d Id of event.
Event Code 10007c4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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