A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/17 / 2017-12-15 08:09:32 / December 15, 2017 @ 8:09 am. The temblor was reported at 17:09:32 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c4r7. Unique identifier: us2000c4r7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.02 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35.02 km, 130.7592° East, 30.2033° North.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop).
Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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