A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Tuesday. Event id: us20007d5j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007d5j. Global time and date of event 10/10/16 / 2016-10-10 22:57:06 / October 10, 2016 @ 10:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.0019 East, latitude 42.6952 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:57:06 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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