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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on July 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5387S, 141.6041WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 49.79 km, 141.6041° East, 37.5387° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.79 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 05:12:56 / July 3, 2020 @ 5:12 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:12:56 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000ah41. Event ids that are associated: us7000ah41.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sendai, Fukushima-shi, Ishinomaki. Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km E of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6041° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km 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 2020-07-03 05:12:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-03 05:37:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 369 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 2.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us7000ah41 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ah41 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ah41, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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