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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3141S, 141.4544WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007bd8. Event ids that are associated: us10007bd8. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 08:49:41 / November 22, 2016 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 8.66 km, 141.4544° East, 37.3141° North. The temblor was reported at 17:49:41 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.66 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hobaramachi, Watari, Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 44 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3141° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2016-11-22 08:49:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 07:21:45 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 0.765 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us10007bd8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007bd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007bd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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