A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.8288° East, 37.2451° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:56:41 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007drq. Id of event: us10007drq. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:56:41 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Namie (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 78 km ESE of Namie, Japan.
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