A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/12/15 / 2015-12-13 23:03:26 / December 13, 2015 @ 11:03 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:03:26 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.38 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100047wq. Ids that are associated to the event: us100047wq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 127.4283° East, 0.9378° North, depth 14.38 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 twenty and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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