A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 141.6269° East, 37.2473° North. Id of earthquake: us10007ds5. Event ids that are associated: us10007ds5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 22:47:16 / November 21, 2016 @ 10:47 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:47:16 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitaibaraki, Iwaki, Namie. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby 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 fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 61 km ESE of Namie, Japan.
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