A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kushiro in Japan. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:09:58 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005dbg. Event ids that are associated: us20005dbg. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/16 / 2016-03-30 05:09:58 / March 30, 2016 @ 5:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.6888 East, latitude 42.8998 North, depth = 51.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.82 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Nemuro, Kushiro.
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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 26 km ESE of Kushiro, Japan.
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