A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Yachimata in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 62.07 km, 140.2986° East, 35.6302° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003pl8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003pl8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 00:48:29 / September 28, 2015 @ 12:48 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.07 km (39 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:48:29 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mashiko, Gyōda, Isehara (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
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 fifty-eight 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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