A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 13:57:09 / February 6, 2018 @ 1:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:57:09 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000chrs. Unique identifier: us1000chrs. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.92 km (32 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.8677° East, latitude 36.7501° North, depth = 50.92 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tsukuba, Kaminokawa, Utsunomiya-shi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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