A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ohara in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 140.4761° East, 35.243° North, depth 29.32 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/18 / 2018-06-16 02:22:33 / June 16, 2018 @ 2:22 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.32 km (18 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:22:33 / 11:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000exm4. Unique identifier: us1000exm4.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Koshigaya, Naka, Hatogaya-honchō (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km E of Ohara, Japan.
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