A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Exact location, longitude 141.5199° East, latitude 35.1267° North, depth = 28.44 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 01:03:39 / May 25, 2016 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20005zdk. Event ids that are associated: us20005zdk. 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 28.44 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:03:39 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Hasaki (c. 39 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hasaki.
Each 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km SE of Hasaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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