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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us1000hwut. Event ids that are associated: us1000hwut. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:26:41 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 40.12 km, 141.4814° East, 37.5114° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 22:26:41 / November 26, 2018 @ 10:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.12 km (25 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fukushima-shi, Nihommatsu, Ōkawara. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 five and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km E of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.4814° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5114° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km 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	2018-11-26 22:26:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-26 23:41:09	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	0.654	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us1000hwut	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hwut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hwut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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