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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Namie in Japan. The temblor was reported at 06:28:25 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:28:25 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.2854° East, 37.328° North. Event id: us10007b8n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007b8n.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hitachi, Shiroishi, Iwanuma.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 30 km SE of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2854° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SE 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	2016-11-21 21:28:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-21 21:58:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	355	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	0.668	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us10007b8n	Id of event.
Event Code	10007b8n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007b8n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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