A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 56 km WNW of Hachijo-jima, Japan (35 miles). Unique identifier: us20006ehg. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006ehg. The temblor was picked up at 11:07:07 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 139.2782 East, latitude 33.3463 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/16 / 2016-07-14 02:07:07 / July 14, 2016 @ 2:07 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
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 five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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