A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10002niu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002niu. The temblor was picked up at 23:06:26 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.9289 East, latitude 34.974 North, depth = 114.52 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 114.52 km (71 miles). Global time and date of event 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 14:06:26 / July 5, 2015 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wako, Sōka, Yashio-shi (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 5 km E of Tateyama, Japan.
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