A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Taniwel in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.6932 East, latitude -2.8105 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:17:45 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 00:17:45 / May 30, 2016 @ 12:17 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us200061q4. Unique identifier: us200061q4.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km E of Taniwel, Indonesia.
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