Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Namie in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 07:32:29 / November 22, 2016 @ 7:32 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.435 East, latitude 37.2464 North, depth = 38.85 km. Id of earthquake: us10007dt8. Event ids that are associated: us10007dt8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:32:29 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 38.85 km (24 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Motomiya, Nihommatsu, Marumori. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km SE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.435° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2464° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2016-11-22 07:32:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-05 14:32:25	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	312	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	0.805	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us10007dt8	Id of event.
Event Code	10007dt8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007dt8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.435° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.2464° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

38.85 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

46km 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

2016-11-22 07:32:29

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-12-05 14:32:25

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

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

312

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

0.805

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

Root Mean Square

0.72 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

131

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

us10007dt8

Id of event.

Event Code

10007dt8

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

Event IDS

,us10007dt8,

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

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