A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Nago in Japan. Id of earthquake: us70006u77. Event ids that are associated: us70006u77. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 128.3476° East, latitude 27.3515° North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 23:35:16 / December 17, 2019 @ 11:35 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:35:16 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nago. Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 92 km NNE of Nago, Japan.
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