A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ibusuki in Japan. Global time and date of event 08/12/15 / 2015-12-08 09:28:03 / December 8, 2015 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004539. Unique identifier: us10004539. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.5356 East, latitude 30.9848 North, depth = 127.01 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:28:03 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 127.01 km (79 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miyakonojō, Satsumasendai, Kushima (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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