A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.29 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 22:07:20 / December 15, 2015 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004hff. Id of event: us20004hff. Exact location, longitude 146.5305° East, latitude 42.9253° North, depth = 31.29 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:07:20 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km ESE of Nemuro, Japan.
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