A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Joetsu in Japan. Exact location, longitude 138.0279° East, latitude 37.538° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200067dx. Ids that are associated to the event: us200067dx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 04:36:19 / June 27, 2016 @ 4:36 am. The temblor was detected at 13:36:19 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gosen, Muramatsu, Suzaka. Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Niigata-shi (c. 505 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jōetsu (c. 204 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kashiwazaki (c. 86 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sanjō (c. 82 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Niitsu-honchō (c. 65 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km NNW of Joetsu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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