A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Yamada in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:03:16 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 01:03:16 / December 6, 2024 @ 1:03 am. Unique identifier: us7000nwee. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nwee. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.159 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.4447 East, latitude 39.5133 North, depth = 70.159 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tōno, Ōfunato, Kamaishi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km E of Yamada, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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