A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kisarazu in Japan. The temblor was reported at 18:18:16 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 09:18:16 / August 9, 2015 @ 9:18 am. Exact location, longitude 140.058° East, latitude 35.3978° North, depth = 56.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.9 km (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100030jh. Unique identifier: us100030jh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Atami, Hakone, Fukiage-fujimi. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 12 km ENE of Kisarazu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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