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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 28.6257S, 128.6895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Naze in Japan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.6895 East, latitude 28.6257 North, depth = 141.11 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/17 / 2017-02-28 19:44:37 / February 28, 2017 @ 7:44 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:44:37 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100085t2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100085t2. The epicenter was at a depth of 141.11 km (88 miles).

The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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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: 82 km WNW of Naze, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6895° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WNW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-28 19:44:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-28 21:49:02 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 298 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 1.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us100085t2 Id of event.
Event Code 100085t2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100085t2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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