A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Nago in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 17:50:31 / July 28, 2019 @ 5:50 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 128.9083 East, latitude 26.3149 North, depth = 23.85 km. The temblor was detected at 02:50:31 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60004wt6. Unique identifier: us60004wt6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.85 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nago (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 97 km ESE of Nago, Japan.
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