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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.6521S, 141.6672WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Namie in Japan on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 141.6672 East, latitude 37.6521 North, depth = 64.93 km. Event id: us6000dhj0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dhj0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/02/21 / 2021-02-14 05:53:54 / February 14, 2021 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:53:54 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 64.93 km (40 miles).

The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ōkawara (c. 23 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōkawara, Shiogama, Ishinomaki.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km ENE of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6672° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km ENE 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 2021-02-14 05:53:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-14 06:22:22 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 284 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 2.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000dhj0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhj0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dhj0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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