A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Tarakan in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 117.634° East, latitude 3.5847° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:00:13 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 05:00:13 / December 25, 2015 @ 5:00 am. Unique identifier: us100049fr. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049fr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Tawau (c. 306 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tarakan (c. 97 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sembakung (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Malaysia (c. 28 275 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tawau, Sembakung, Tarakan (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km N of Tarakan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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