A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.73 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:10:59 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.8158° East, latitude 38.8986° North, depth = 36.73 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 16:10:59 / January 2, 2017 @ 4:10 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007p9y. Id of event: us10007p9y.
The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Ōfunato, Ōtsuchi (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan.
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