A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.7 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000btp6. Event ids that are associated: us1000btp6. The temblor was picked up at 23:45:00 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 16.7 km, 131.958° East, 30.7259° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 14:45:00 / December 20, 2017 @ 2:45 pm.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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