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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.3345S, 141.3128WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Namie in Japan. Event id: us2000d7av. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7av. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.61 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/02/18 / 2018-02-24 02:43:52 / February 24, 2018 @ 2:43 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.3128 East, latitude 37.3345 North, depth = 34.61 km. The temblor was detected at 11:43:52 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiroishi, Iwanuma, Ōkawara (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 32 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.3128° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km 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 2018-02-24 02:43:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-24 03:03:03 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 0.676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000d7av Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7av An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7av, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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