A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Fukue in Japan on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.68 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/18 / 2018-07-13 08:19:35 / July 13, 2018 @ 8:19 am. Event id: us2000g3tb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g3tb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.02 East, latitude 31.9852 North, depth = 9.68 km. The temblor was reported at 17:19:35 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Fukuechō (c. 26 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fukuechō (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Every 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 79 km SSE of Fukue, Japan.
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