Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Namie in Japan on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 14:36:14 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/12/16 / 2016-12-04 05:36:14 / December 4, 2016 @ 5:36 am UTC/GMT. 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: us10007erf. Id of event: us10007erf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.3805 East, latitude 37.2831 North, depth = 27.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.09 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōkawara, Iwanuma, Hitachi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3805° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2831° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km ESE 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	2016-12-04 05:36:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-04 06:23:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	370	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	0.75	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us10007erf	Id of event.
Event Code	10007erf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007erf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.3805° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.2831° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

27.09 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

40km ESE 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

2016-12-04 05:36:14

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-12-04 06:23:02

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

2.7

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

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

370

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.75

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.61 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

138

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10007erf

Id of event.

Event Code

10007erf

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10007erf,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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