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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3973S, 141.4103WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Namie in Japan on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 20:08:27 / December 30, 2016 @ 8:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 11.94 km, 141.4103° East, 37.3973° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ntd. Unique identifier: us10007ntd. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.94 km (7 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:08:27 / 5:08 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hitachi, Rifu, Sendai-shi. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (66 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 37 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 2016-12-30 20:08:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-30 20:37:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.37 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 467 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 0.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10007ntd Id of event.
Event Code 10007ntd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ntd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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