A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 37.77 km, 125.8859° East, 24.4436° North. The temblor was detected at 21:09:52 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007zh4. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zh4. Global time and date of event 02/12/16 / 2016-12-02 13:09:52 / December 2, 2016 @ 1:09 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.77 km (23 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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