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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Namie in Japan


Earthquake location 37.6007S, 141.6216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Namie in Japan. Unique identifier: us7000ddsn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ddsn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.95 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/21 / 2021-02-26 04:04:24 / February 26, 2021 @ 4:04 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:04:24 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 141.6216° East, 37.6007° North, depth 57.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hobaramachi, Ishinomaki, Shiogama (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kakuda (c. 33 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Hobaramachi (c. 24 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 56 km ENE of Namie, Japan. This information 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 141.6216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km 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 2021-02-26 04:04:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-26 04:25:53 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 2.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 us7000ddsn Id of event.
Event Code 7000ddsn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ddsn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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