A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ito in Japan on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c1ag. Unique identifier: us1000c1ag. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/18 / 2018-01-05 19:37:58 / January 5, 2018 @ 7:37 pm. The temblor was picked up at 04:37:58 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.18 km, 139.2772° East, 34.8353° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.18 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Machida (c. 400 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop). Nearby 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 Chōfugaoka, Hino, Fujieda.
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 22 km SE of Ito, Japan.
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