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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on December 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2111S, 141.388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Namie in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.388° East, latitude 37.2111° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007epw. Id of event: us10007epw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/16 / 2016-12-03 23:34:41 / December 3, 2016 @ 11:34 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:34:41 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hobaramachi, Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Marumori (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.388° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2111° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2016-12-03 23:34:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-03 23:53:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 340 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 0.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us10007epw Id of event.
Event Code 10007epw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007epw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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