A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:43:28 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 142.5905 East, latitude 42.0634 North, depth = 27.87 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 08:43:28 / July 5, 2018 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000g2bf. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g2bf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.87 km (17 miles).
Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SSE of Shizunai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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