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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2473S, 141.6269WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.6269° East, 37.2473° North. Id of earthquake: us10007ds5. Event ids that are associated: us10007ds5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 22:47:16 / November 21, 2016 @ 10:47 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:47:16 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitaibaraki, Iwaki, Namie. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 61 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6269° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 22:47:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 04:54:34 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 0.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us10007ds5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ds5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ds5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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