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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on November 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3289S, 141.7276WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.68 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:02:44 / 2:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us700062h2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700062h2. Exact location of event, depth 32.68 km, 141.7276° East, 37.3289° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 05:02:44 / November 3, 2019 @ 5:02 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie. Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty 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. 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: 66 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7276° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2019-11-03 05:02:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 05:37:53 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 340 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 0.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us700062h2 Id of event.
Event Code 700062h2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062h2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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