Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Iwaki in Japan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 141.323° East, 37.0753° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 23:22:34 / November 22, 2016 @ 11:22 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007due. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007due. The temblor was reported at 08:22:34 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sukagawa, Miharu, Hitachi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 39 km E of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.323° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0753° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km E of Iwaki, 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 23:22:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-07 22:44:16	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	234	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	0.898	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10007due	Id of event.
Event Code	10007due	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007due,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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