A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.783 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 00:10:05 / August 20, 2024 @ 12:10 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndan. Unique identifier: us7000ndan. Exact location, longitude 124.8329° East, latitude 25.3974° North, depth = 98.783 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:10:05 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 81 km NW of Hirara, Japan.
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