A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 127.712° East, latitude 2.4899° North, depth = 36.4 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 07:25:38 / September 1, 2015 @ 7:25 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:25:38 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.4 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003jcb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003jcb.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-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.
Did you feel the quake?
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. 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: 90 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply