A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The temblor was detected at 04:26:52 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 20:26:52 / March 3, 2016 @ 8:26 pm. Id of earthquake: us10004uhl. Event ids that are associated: us10004uhl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.03 km (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.8057 East, latitude 25.4813 North, depth = 101.03 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).
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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km NNW of Hirara, Japan.
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