A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. Id of earthquake: us60007i3r. Event ids that are associated: us60007i3r. Exact location of event, longitude 141.8684 East, latitude 41.1431 North, depth = 63.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 63.69 km (40 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:13:49 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 10:13:49 / January 28, 2020 @ 10:13 am.
Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe, Misawa, Mutsu.
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 56 km ESE of Mutsu, Japan.
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