A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/18 / 2018-04-23 17:10:30 / April 23, 2018 @ 5:10 pm. Unique identifier: us1000dqs6. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dqs6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:10:30 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 122.4709 East, latitude 23.9999 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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