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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Iwaki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.7073S, 141.7336WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 18:08:23 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.7336° East, latitude 36.7073° North, depth = 31.36 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.36 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 09:08:23 / March 6, 2016 @ 9:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004vmi. Event ids that are associated: us10004vmi.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takahagi, Kitaibaraki, Iwaki. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 84 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km ESE of Iwaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 09:08:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 08:40:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 1.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 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 us10004vmi Id of event.
Event Code 10004vmi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vmi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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