A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.4573 East, latitude 37.37 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:17:51 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:17:51 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us10007drx. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007drx.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwanuma, Fukushima-shi, Sukagawa. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km ESE of Namie, Japan.
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