A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:09:56 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 09:09:56 / February 21, 2018 @ 9:09 am. Unique identifier: us2000day0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000day0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7726 East, latitude 42.3526 North, depth = 104.28 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.28 km (65 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otofuke, Obihiro, Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-two 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 earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 33 km E of Shizunai, Japan.
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