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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 79 km E of Namie, Japan


Earthquake location 37.576S, 141.8868WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Namie in Japan. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:37:25 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8868 East, latitude 37.576 North, depth = 42.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7q4. Id of event: us2000d7q4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 17:37:25 / February 25, 2018 @ 5:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.74 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namie.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km E of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8868° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2018-02-25 17:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 13:58:10 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 0.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us2000d7q4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7q4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7q4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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