A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.6 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 17:50:50 / May 30, 2016 @ 5:50 pm. Unique identifier: us20005z82. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005z82. The temblor was detected at 01:50:50 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 122.544° East, latitude 24.1672° North, depth = 44.6 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian. Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 56 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan.
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