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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.2378S, 141.9255WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Namie in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.15 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 141.9255 East, latitude 37.2378 North, depth = 30.15 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 15:37:54 / February 1, 2018 @ 3:37 pm. Event id: us1000cdq5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cdq5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:37:54 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 86 km ESE of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9255° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2018-02-01 15:37:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-01 18:12:25 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 1.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000cdq5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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