A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.41 km (30 miles). Event id: us1000atv8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000atv8. Exact location, longitude 141.0364° East, latitude 36.5467° North, depth = 48.41 km. The temblor was reported at 00:08:34 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/17 / 2017-10-18 15:08:34 / October 18, 2017 @ 3:08 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edosaki, Tsukuba, Hasaki. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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