A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ichinoseki in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 141.1736° East, 38.9912° North, depth 103.04 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 103.04 km (64 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/18 / 2018-09-09 11:37:53 / September 9, 2018 @ 11:37 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:37:53 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hbg5. Unique identifier: us2000hbg5.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Higashine, Sendai, Yamada. Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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