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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.7298S, 141.6813WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Namie in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000djde. Id of event: us6000djde. The temblor was detected at 14:58:43 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/21 / 2021-02-13 14:58:43 / February 13, 2021 @ 2:58 pm. Exact location, longitude 141.6813° East, latitude 37.7298° North, depth = 67.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.88 km (42 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sendai-shi, Sendai, Rifu. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 66 km ENE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 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 2021-02-13 14:58:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-20 20:52:10 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 298 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 3.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us6000djde Id of event.
Event Code 6000djde An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000djde, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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