A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Sunday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:20:26 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000407f. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000407f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 23:20:26 / November 21, 2015 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.7484° East, latitude 36.4343° North, depth = 43.43 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sugito, Yoshikawa, Yotsukaidō.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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