A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 23:05:59 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000dare. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dare. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 14:05:59 / March 29, 2018 @ 2:05 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.2546 East, latitude 41.9216 North, depth = 65.56 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.56 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 46 km SSW of Shizunai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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