A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Otsuki in Japan. Unique identifier: us7000591s. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000591s. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 15:13:33 / August 26, 2019 @ 3:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.18 km (27 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:13:33 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 139.0133 East, latitude 35.504 North, depth = 43.18 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tateyama, Sakai, Ichihara.
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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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