A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Chiba-shi in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 69.48 km, 140.166° East, 35.599° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 06:20:07 / January 4, 2018 @ 6:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000c0l5. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000c0l5. The epicenter was at a depth of 69.48 km (43 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:20:07 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uenohara, Hitachi-Naka, Mooka.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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