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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 69 km E of Namie, Japan


Earthquake location 37.5847S, 141.7752WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Namie in Japan. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:26:58 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000dhkk. Event ids that are associated: us6000dhkk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.7752 East, latitude 37.5847 North, depth = 50.9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/02/21 / 2021-02-14 09:26:58 / February 14, 2021 @ 9:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 50.9 km (32 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakuda, Marumori, Watari. Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Marumori (c. 16 800 pop). Nearby 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 twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km E of Namie, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 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 2021-02-14 09:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-14 09:52:09 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 326 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 1.854 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000dhkk Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhkk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dhkk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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