A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Hirara in Japan. Id of earthquake: us2000j9g8. Event ids that are associated: us2000j9g8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.2885 East, latitude 24.2601 North, depth = 20.25 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.25 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 12:20:00 / January 27, 2019 @ 12:20 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:20:00 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km S of Hirara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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