A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Miyako in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.01 km (36 miles). Unique identifier: us10003zui. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zui. Exact location of event, depth 58.01 km, 141.709° East, 39.6863° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 23:30:07 / November 18, 2015 @ 11:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:30:07 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mizusawa, Ichinohe, Ōfunato. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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