A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Namie in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006w66. Id of event: us70006w66. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 02:57:50 / January 8, 2020 @ 2:57 am. Exact location of event, depth 27.32 km, 141.9488° East, 37.2364° North. The temblor was detected at 11:57:50 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.32 km (17 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwaki, Namie. Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km ESE of Namie, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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