A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hotaka in Japan on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 137.6351 East, latitude 36.2758 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 02:32:19 / April 27, 2020 @ 2:32 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:32:19 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700097qa. Ids that are associated to the event: us700097qa.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tsurugi-asahimachi, Iiyama, Tsubata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ueda (c. 126 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Iida (c. 107 100 pop).
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 five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 23 km WSW of Hotaka, Japan.
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