A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Otsuchi in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 49.22 km, 142.1742° East, 39.3169° North. The temblor was detected at 08:50:22 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 49.22 km (31 miles). Id of earthquake: us20006g0h. Event ids that are associated: us20006g0h. Global time and date of event 19/07/16 / 2016-07-19 23:50:22 / July 19, 2016 @ 11:50 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinoseki, Morioka-shi, Mizusawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 24 km ESE of Otsuchi, Japan.
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