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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on September 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2672S, 142.2776WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 115 km ESE of Namie, Japan (71 miles). Exact location, longitude 142.2776° East, latitude 37.2672° North, depth = 35.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.99 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/08/17 / 2017-08-26 18:34:55 / August 26, 2017 @ 6:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:34:55 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ad70. Id of event: us2000ad70.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 115 km ESE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2776° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km 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 2017-08-26 18:34:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-21 17:29:50 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 312 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 1.326 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000ad70 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ad70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ad70, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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