A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 133.5378° East, latitude -0.7308° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:43:50 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/10/16 / 2016-10-12 22:43:50 / October 12, 2016 @ 10:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007dp9. Id of event: us20007dp9.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manokwari. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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