A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007d3f. Unique identifier: us20007d3f. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/16 / 2016-10-10 16:00:42 / October 10, 2016 @ 4:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:00:42 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8062 East, latitude 37.8719 North, depth = 48.58 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.58 km (30 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōkawara, Wakuya, Sendai-shi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Watari (c. 36 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Rifu (c. 35 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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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