A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/04/16 / 2016-04-12 12:42:57 / April 12, 2016 @ 12:42 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20005he0. Event ids that are associated: us20005he0. Exact location of event, depth 105.88 km, 128.2688° East, 1.316° North. The temblor was picked up at 21:42:57 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.88 km (66 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 53 km SSE of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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