A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Lolak in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 268.09 km (167 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:16:55 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 09:16:55 / August 14, 2016 @ 9:16 am. Exact location of event, longitude 123.7936 East, latitude 0.7503 North, depth = 268.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10006dqi. Event ids that are associated: us10006dqi.
Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WSW of Lolak, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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