A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Kunisaki-shi in Japan on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 13:36:48 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.49 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 04:36:48 / August 15, 2016 @ 4:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 73.49 km, 131.8799° East, 33.4934° North. Unique identifier: us10006duj. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006duj.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tagawa, Sukumo, Shimonoseki (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Yamaguchi-shi (c. 145 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hōfu (c. 116 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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