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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.4941S, 141.4461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Namie in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/20 / 2020-08-09 05:30:31 / August 9, 2020 @ 5:30 am. The temblor was reported at 05:30:31 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000bbbv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bbbv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.16 km (36 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.4461 East, latitude 37.4941 North, depth = 58.16 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishikawa, Kōriyama, Motomiya. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 39 km E of Namie, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km 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 2020-08-09 05:30:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-04 12:02:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 1.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000bbbv Id of event.
Event Code 6000bbbv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bbbv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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