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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.5215S, 141.4601WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Namie in Japan. Event id: us2000e24w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000e24w. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.93 km (19 miles). Global time and date of event 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 23:02:18 / April 11, 2018 @ 11:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:02:18 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.4601 East, latitude 37.5215 North, depth = 29.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiroishi, Fukushima-shi, Nihommatsu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 40 km E of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4601° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km 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 2018-04-11 23:02:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-05 23:58:14 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 0.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000e24w Id of event.
Event Code 2000e24w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e24w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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