A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 19:09:13 / April 11, 2018 @ 7:09 pm. Unique identifier: us2000e251. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000e251. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.87 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8201 East, latitude 38.2554 North, depth = 47.87 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:09:13 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watari, Iwanuma, Sendai (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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