A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 54.77 km, 146.5331° East, 42.8255° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/10/17 / 2017-10-30 23:00:55 / October 30, 2017 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.77 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayt8. Id of event: us1000ayt8. The temblor was picked up at 09:00:55 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nemuro (min 5000 pop). 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km SE of Nemuro, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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