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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2228S, 141.2155WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.2155° East, 37.2228° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:16:16 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007drk. Unique identifier: us10007drk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:16:16 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Inawashiro, Ōmiya, Iwanuma. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 34 km SSE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2155° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE 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 2016-11-21 21:16:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 04:06:47 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 385 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 2.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us10007drk Id of event.
Event Code 10007drk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007drk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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