A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Itoman in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 127.4268 East, latitude 25.3847 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:59:19 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006t96. Id of event: us60006t96. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/12/19 / 2019-12-11 09:59:19 / December 11, 2019 @ 9:59 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomigusuku, Itoman (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 85 km SSW of Itoman, Japan.
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