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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.5413S, 141.5045WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Namie in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/17 / 2017-04-08 22:20:14 / April 8, 2017 @ 10:20 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:20:14 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.5045 East, latitude 37.5413 North, depth = 42.7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008fxn. Unique identifier: us10008fxn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 42.7 km (27 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Matsushima, Kōriyama, Rifu. The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km E of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5045° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km E 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 2017-04-08 22:20:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-08 22:37:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 355 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 0.654 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008fxn Id of event.
Event Code 10008fxn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008fxn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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