A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 159 km WSW of Chichi-shima, Japan (99 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 140.8037° East, 26.3986° North, depth 487.24 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 487.24 km (303 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cnj8. Unique identifier: us2000cnj8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 03:14:42 / January 24, 2018 @ 3:14 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:14:42 / 12:14 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 159 km WSW of Chichi-shima, Japan.
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