A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. 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 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:37:26 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 141.8941 East, latitude 37.6552 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us10007dsd. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007dsd. The temblor was picked up at 06:37:26 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Namie. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 81 km ENE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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