A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Uwajima in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 132.3647° East, latitude 33.2503° North, depth = 32 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mcpi. Event ids that are associated: us7000mcpi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:14:46 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 14:14:46 / April 17, 2024 @ 2:14 pm.
Event epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) from Hiroshima-shi (c. 1 143 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Kōchi-shi (c. 335 600 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Kure (c. 196 600 pop), 129 km (80 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Niihama (c. 123 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ube, Hiroshima-shi, Aso. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.
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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: 18 km W of Uwajima, Japan.
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