A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cnvj. Unique identifier: us2000cnvj. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.01 km (22 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:01:13 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/18 / 2018-01-10 11:01:13 / January 10, 2018 @ 11:01 am. Exact location, longitude 131.9622° East, latitude 30.7195° North, depth = 35.01 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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