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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 74 km E of Namie, Japan


Earthquake location 37.4209S, 141.8367WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Namie in Japan on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.5 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8367 East, latitude 37.4209 North, depth = 32.5 km. The temblor was reported at 10:16:11 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 01:16:11 / May 6, 2020 @ 1:16 am. Id of earthquake: us70009ate. Event ids that are associated: us70009ate.

The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 74 km E of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8367° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2020-05-06 01:16:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 01:35:59 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 340 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 3.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 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 us70009ate Id of event.
Event Code 70009ate An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ate, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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