A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Naze in Japan. Exact location, longitude 129.716° East, latitude 28.8205° North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 23:12:40 / March 27, 2019 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:12:40 / 8:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ka5r. Unique identifier: us2000ka5r.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 55 km NNE of Naze, Japan.
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