A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000cit8. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cit8. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 09:51:09 / January 12, 2018 @ 9:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:51:09 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 131.8162° East, 30.7407° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushima, Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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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