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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 91 km E of Namie, Japan

Posted by admin on January 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.335S, 142.0182WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.91 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/18 / 2018-01-02 21:24:17 / January 2, 2018 @ 9:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 142.0182° East, latitude 37.335° North, depth = 35.91 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:24:17 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000bz4s. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bz4s.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namie.

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 seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km E of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0182° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 2018-01-02 21:24:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 22:30:26 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 284 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 1.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us1000bz4s Id of event.
Event Code 1000bz4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bz4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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