A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Mitsukaido in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 139.9818 East, latitude 36.0296 North, depth = 43.88 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.88 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000318f. Event ids that are associated: us2000318f. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 12:34:53 / July 29, 2015 @ 12:34 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:34:53 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōtawara, Yoshii, Takasaki (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km N of Mitsukaido, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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