A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Muroto-misakicho in Japan on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n94d. Unique identifier: us7000n94d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/08/24 / 2024-08-24 00:32:39 / August 24, 2024 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 134.3369° East, latitude 32.8777° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:32:39 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aki, Muroto-misakicho. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Aki (c. 20 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Muroto-misakicho (c. 17 600 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km SSE of Muroto-misakicho, Japan.
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