A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.51 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 127.5123 East, latitude 0.9017 North, depth = 22.51 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:59:18 / 11:59 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100040rq. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040rq. Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 02:59:18 / November 20, 2015 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate.
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NE of Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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