A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20009wrg. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009wrg. Global time and date of event 16/07/17 / 2017-07-16 11:16:02 / July 16, 2017 @ 11:16 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.07 km (26 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:16:02 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.9361° East, 41.576° North, depth 41.07 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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