A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Miyako in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.02 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 08:06:29 / January 26, 2017 @ 8:06 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007vh4. Unique identifier: us10007vh4. Exact location of event, longitude 142.4549 East, latitude 40.2406 North, depth = 37.02 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:06:29 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Misawa, Ichinohe, Yamada (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 79 km NNE of Miyako, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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