A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Daigo in Japan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.4224 East, latitude 36.8043 North, depth = 59.288 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000p013. Unique identifier: us7000p013. The temblor was reported at 03:53:37 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 59.288 km (37 miles). Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 03:53:37 / December 6, 2024 @ 3:53 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fujioka, Sano, Namie (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 7 km ENE of Daigo, Japan.
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