A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kashima-shi in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 15:41:05 / November 15, 2024 @ 3:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ns09. Unique identifier: us7000ns09. The temblor was picked up at 15:41:05 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0001 East, latitude 36.0888 North, depth = 48.089 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.089 km (30 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (59 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kashiwa, Mooka, Chiba (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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 34 km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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