A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Muroran in Japan. Id of earthquake: us10007dqt. Event ids that are associated: us10007dqt. Global time and date of event 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 04:09:18 / November 21, 2016 @ 4:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 128.62 km (80 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.9522° East, latitude 42.2429° North, depth = 128.62 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:09:18 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwanai, Chitose, Tomakomai (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kamiiso (c. 38 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Date (c. 35 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 8 km SSW of Muroran, Japan.
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