A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Asahi in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 04:51:12 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.674 East, latitude 35.6279 North, depth = 56.944 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ph8i. Unique identifier: us6000ph8i. Global time and date of event 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 04:51:12 / December 16, 2024 @ 4:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.944 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kasama, Shimotoda, Kawaguchi. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 10 km SSE of Asahi, Japan.
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