A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Makurazaki in Japan. The temblor was detected at 04:05:48 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 19:05:48 / May 13, 2016 @ 7:05 pm. Unique identifier: us10005h9i. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005h9i. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.99 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude 129.2961° East, latitude 31.0622° North, depth = 6.99 km.
Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makurazaki (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Makurazaki (c. 25 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
How would you describe the shaking?
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: 99 km WSW of Makurazaki, Japan.
Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply