A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.53 km (9 miles). Exact location, longitude 141.186° East, latitude 37.244° North, depth = 14.53 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 09:07:20 / August 8, 2018 @ 9:07 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g59j. Unique identifier: us1000g59j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:07:20 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shiroishi, Ōkawara, Watari (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-six 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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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. 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: 31 km SSE of Namie, Japan.
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