A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Namie in Japan on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.399 East, latitude 37.2204 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 07:48:24 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 22:48:24 / November 21, 2016 @ 10:48 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007b9g. Unique identifier: us10007b9g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Hitachi, Marumori. Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 45 km SE of Namie, Japan.
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