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


Earthquake location 37.1831S, 141.6767WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location, longitude 141.6767° East, latitude 37.1831° North, depth = 42.21 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:58:37 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.21 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 08:58:37 / November 22, 2016 @ 8:58 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10007dtb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dtb.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitaibaraki, Iwaki, Namie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 68 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6767° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1831° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2016-11-22 08:58:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 07:33:25 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 0.982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10007dtb Id of event.
Event Code 10007dtb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dtb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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