A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/18 / 2018-01-05 02:02:25 / January 5, 2018 @ 2:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:02:25 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 140.76 East, latitude 35.8382 North, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c0zi. Unique identifier: us1000c0zi.
Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saitama, Tokyo, Takahagi (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NNW of Hasaki, Japan.
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