Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag was detected near Namie in Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.35 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Namie in Japan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:59:49 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 20:59:49 / November 21, 2016 @ 8:59 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00oh0fnm, pt16326050, us10007b88. Unique identifier: us10007b88. Exact location of event, depth 11.35 km, 141.4025° East, 37.3917° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōarai, Tendō, Karasuyama. Event epicenter was 107 km (67 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 131 km (82 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 135 km (84 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 136 km (85 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km ESE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Fukushima-shi Hitachi Hitachi-Naka Iwaki Japan Karasuyama Katsuta Kōriyama Namie Oarai Sendai Sendai-shi Tendo Yamagata-shi

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.4025° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3917° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km ESE 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 20:59:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-21 21:29:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	201	The total number of felt reports
CDI	7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.8	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	1	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	873	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	,at,pt,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	0.681	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10007b88	Id of event.
Event Code	10007b88	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00oh0fnm,pt16326050,us10007b88,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.4025° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.3917° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

11.35 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

37km ESE 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 20:59:49

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-11-21 21:29:36

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

540

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

201

The total number of felt reports

CDI

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.8

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

873

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,at,pt,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

0.681

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.86 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mwb

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10007b88

Id of event.

Event Code

10007b88

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,at00oh0fnm,pt16326050,us10007b88,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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