A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.94 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.4512 East, latitude 1.0244 North, depth = 9.94 km. The temblor was detected at 06:01:11 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/02/16 / 2016-02-23 21:01:11 / February 23, 2016 @ 9:01 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004s5s. Id of event: us10004s5s.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate. Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 25 km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia.
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