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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2611S, 141.4004WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.69 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.4004 East, latitude 37.2611 North, depth = 17.69 km. The temblor was reported at 09:32:42 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007dt3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dt3. Global time and date of event 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 00:32:42 / November 22, 2016 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hobaramachi, Kakuda, Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 43 km SE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4004° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SE 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 00:32:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-13 06:38:51 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 0.777 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us10007dt3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007dt3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dt3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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