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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, 54 km ENE of Namie, Japan

Posted by admin on August 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7344S, 141.5361WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Namie in Japan on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600050if. Id of event: us600050if. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 10:23:03 / August 4, 2019 @ 10:23 am. The temblor was detected at 19:23:03 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 38.56 km, 141.5361° East, 37.7344° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.56 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kitaibaraki, Inawashiro, Higashine (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Yonezawa (c. 94 500 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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: 54 km ENE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5361° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km ENE 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 2019-08-04 10:23:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-04 10:43:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.1 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 616 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 0.606 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600050if Id of event.
Event Code 600050if An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600050if, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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