A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Uto in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.5641 East, latitude 32.7519 North, depth = 9.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.4 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:44:08 / 12:44 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005lez. Unique identifier: us20005lez. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/16 / 2016-04-24 15:44:08 / April 24, 2016 @ 3:44 pm.
The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karatsu, Kobayashi, Umi (min 5000 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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