A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ofunato in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 21:43:27 / August 7, 2015 @ 9:43 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 65.83 km (41 miles). Unique identifier: us100034q6. Ids that are associated to the event: us100034q6. The temblor was detected at 06:43:27 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 65.83 km, 141.7608° East, 39.0197° North.
Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Matsushima, Morioka-shi, Furukawa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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