A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Namie in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.58 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:14:46 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hazy. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hazy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.8694° East, latitude 37.3559° North, depth = 23.58 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 07:14:46 / October 6, 2018 @ 7:14 am.
Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwaki, Namie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 78 km E of Namie, Japan.
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