A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/18 / 2018-01-13 04:13:10 / January 13, 2018 @ 4:13 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.9416 East, latitude 30.7198 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000cpuw. Event ids that are associated: us2000cpuw. The temblor was picked up at 13:13:10 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 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 Nishinoomote.
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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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