A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/17 / 2017-12-04 07:42:02 / December 4, 2017 @ 7:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.4671 East, latitude 38.8911 North, depth = 46.84 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.84 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bku5. Unique identifier: us1000bku5. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:42:02 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Tōno, Yamada. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 65 km SE of Kamaishi, Japan.
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