A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yachimata in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 17:07:10 / May 3, 2018 @ 5:07 pm. Unique identifier: us1000dxc4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dxc4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 140.2518 East, latitude 35.6178 North, depth = 60.69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.69 km (38 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:07:10 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kumagaya, Kaminokawa, Mashiko (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 6 km WSW of Yachimata, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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