A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nago in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.85 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.8165 East, latitude 26.5837 North, depth = 52.85 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 12:28:39 / January 13, 2017 @ 12:28 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007t3b. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007t3b. The temblor was detected at 21:28:39 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Naha-shi. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 15 km W of Nago, Japan.
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