A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mitsukaido in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:33:28 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.62 km (27 miles). Unique identifier: us20005ckn. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005ckn. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/16 / 2016-03-26 13:33:28 / March 26, 2016 @ 1:33 pm. Exact location of event, depth 43.62 km, 139.9385° East, 36.0063° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōhara, Hiratsuka, Daigo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 4 km WSW of Mitsukaido, Japan.
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