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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5089S, 141.3237WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Namie in Japan on Friday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:03:27 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.3237 East, latitude 37.5089 North, depth = 39.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.54 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007e5b. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007e5b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/12/16 / 2016-12-01 23:03:27 / December 1, 2016 @ 11:03 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rifu, Kitaibaraki, Shiogama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km E of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.3237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5089° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2016-12-01 23:03:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-01 23:22:28 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 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 0.555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us10007e5b Id of event.
Event Code 10007e5b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007e5b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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