A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Miyako in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 13:22:30 / August 2, 2015 @ 1:22 pm. Exact location, longitude 142.6072° East, latitude 39.9101° North, depth = 39.81 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.81 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10002xah. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002xah. The temblor was detected at 23:22:30 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kamaishi, Ōtsuchi, Yamada. Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop).
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 four and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km ENE of Miyako, Japan.
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