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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on February 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5841S, 141.3741WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us20008mw4. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008mw4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/17 / 2017-02-28 07:49:02 / February 28, 2017 @ 7:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.25 km (26 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:49:02 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.3741° East, 37.5841° North, depth 42.25 km.

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takahata, Takahagi, Kogota (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km ENE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.3741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ENE 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 2017-02-28 07:49:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-28 08:09:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 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 501 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 0.543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 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 us20008mw4 Id of event.
Event Code 20008mw4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008mw4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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