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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2464S, 141.435WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 07:32:29 / November 22, 2016 @ 7:32 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.435 East, latitude 37.2464 North, depth = 38.85 km. Id of earthquake: us10007dt8. Event ids that are associated: us10007dt8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:32:29 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 38.85 km (24 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Motomiya, Nihommatsu, Marumori. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km SE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 2016-11-22 07:32:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 14:32:25 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 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 0.805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10007dt8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007dt8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dt8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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