A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Koshima in Japan. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:09:29 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000nq7k. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nq7k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.503 km (26 miles). Exact location, longitude 130.6232° East, latitude 30.0099° North, depth = 41.503 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/24 / 2024-09-06 21:09:29 / September 6, 2024 @ 9:09 pm.
Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nishinoomote. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 26 km SSE of Koshima, Japan.
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