A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. Exact location, longitude 140.3533° East, latitude 34.4958° North, depth = 33.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.08 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:15:06 / 5:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 20:15:06 / August 13, 2016 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10006dmp. Event ids that are associated: us10006dmp.
Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kisarazu, Mobara, Futtsu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kimitsu (c. 92 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Futtsu (c. 51 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Miura (c. 51 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tateyama (c. 50 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 29 100 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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