A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.98 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.5858° East, 38.9304° North, depth 29.98 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/04/16 / 2016-04-12 00:02:45 / April 12, 2016 @ 12:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:02:45 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005k3x. Unique identifier: us20005k3x.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Ōfunato, Ōtsuchi.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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