A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Haebaru in Japan on Saturday. 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) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us200081u0. Unique identifier: us200081u0. Exact location of event, longitude 128.4993 East, latitude 25.9286 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 06:18:27 / December 17, 2016 @ 6:18 am. The temblor was picked up at 15:18:27 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nago, Naha-shi, Ishikawa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 77 km SE of Haebaru, Japan.
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