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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.3099S, 141.5297WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us10007dtn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dtn. The temblor was detected at 23:14:29 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.5297 East, latitude 37.3099 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 14:14:29 / November 22, 2016 @ 2:14 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Funehikimachi-funehiki (c. 23 500 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Miharu (c. 19 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakuda, Takahagi, Ishikawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-five, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km ESE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5297° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 14:14:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-19 21:03:32 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 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us10007dtn Id of event.
Event Code 10007dtn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dtn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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