A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Iiyama in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ebxl. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ebxl. Exact location, longitude 138.5997° East, latitude 36.9385° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:13:42 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 12:13:42 / May 25, 2018 @ 12:13 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Jōetsu (c. 204 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ashikaga (c. 159 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fukayachō, Ashikaga, Gosen.
Each 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. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 22 km ENE of Iiyama, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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