A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. The temblor was detected at 00:59:59 / 12:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.5621 East, latitude 38.3127 North, depth = 50 km. 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 50 km (31 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a8nu. Unique identifier: us6000a8nu. Global time and date of event 02/06/20 / 2020-06-02 00:59:59 / June 2, 2020 @ 12:59 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiroishi, Ōfunato, Marumori (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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