A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 46.33 km, 140.9253° East, 36.6022° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.33 km (29 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/16 / 2016-07-19 07:27:57 / July 19, 2016 @ 7:27 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:27:57 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006g9u. Id of event: us20006g9u.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utsunomiya-shi, Kaminokawa, Naka (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km SE of Takahagi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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