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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on March 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4334S, 141.3897WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Namie in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008tmx. Unique identifier: us20008tmx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 00:21:05 / March 22, 2017 @ 12:21 am. The temblor was picked up at 09:21:05 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.3897 East, latitude 37.4334 North, depth = 37.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.03 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiroishi, Kitaibaraki, Sukagawa. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km E of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.3897° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km E 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 2017-03-22 00:21:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-22 01:28:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us20008tmx Id of event.
Event Code 20008tmx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008tmx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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