A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Iwase in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 77.55 km, 140.0904° East, 36.3263° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 02:00:55 / July 4, 2016 @ 2:00 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005zqe. Unique identifier: us10005zqe. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.55 km (48 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:00:55 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hasaki, Maebashi-shi, Ōami. Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 2 km SSW of Iwase, Japan.
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