A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 127.2529° East, latitude 1.9108° North, depth = 70.73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.73 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 13:59:23 / June 19, 2016 @ 1:59 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:59:23 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200066h6. Unique identifier: us200066h6.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Every 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 ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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