A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Nichinan in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 05:20:01 / October 1, 2024 @ 5:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.417 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 20.417 km, 132.3337° East, 31.3743° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmfi. Unique identifier: us7000nmfi. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:20:01 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nichinan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km ESE of Nichinan, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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