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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2451S, 141.8288WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.8288° East, 37.2451° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:56:41 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007drq. Id of event: us10007drq. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:56:41 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 78 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8288° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2016-11-21 21:56:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 03:30:28 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 298 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 1.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us10007drq Id of event.
Event Code 10007drq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007drq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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