A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Hirara in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/16 / 2016-03-17 19:50:44 / March 17, 2016 @ 7:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005ake. Id of event: us20005ake. The temblor was detected at 03:50:44 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 125.2302° East, latitude 24.3279° North, depth = 27.59 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.59 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop).
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 nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km S of Hirara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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