A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.2708 East, latitude 41.9132 North, depth = 61.19 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:06:27 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.19 km (38 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 02:06:27 / February 28, 2016 @ 2:06 am. Unique identifier: us10004t8w. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004t8w.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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