A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. Unique identifier: us10002xsz. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002xsz. The temblor was detected at 13:39:47 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 16.73 km, 131.4546° East, 30.7097° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 04:39:47 / August 4, 2015 @ 4:39 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.73 km (10 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nichinan, Ibusuki, Kanoya. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Shibushi (c. 18 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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