A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Namie in Japan on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 141.9426° East, 37.5277° North, depth 36.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.85 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jm8p. Unique identifier: us2000jm8p. The temblor was detected at 09:33:21 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 00:33:21 / February 24, 2019 @ 12:33 am UTC/GMT.
Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Namie. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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