A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Haebaru in Japan on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 21:08:02 / December 31, 2016 @ 9:08 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007nxh. Unique identifier: us10007nxh. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.28 km (5 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, longitude 128.7066° East, latitude 26.056° North, depth = 8.28 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:08:02 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chatan, Ishikawa, Ginowan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Katsuren-haebaru (c. 34 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Chatan (c. 27 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ishikawa (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 89 km ESE of Haebaru, Japan.
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