A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:40:15 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.7489 East, latitude 1.4353 North, depth = 190.18 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007t4q. Unique identifier: us10007t4q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 13:40:15 / December 27, 2016 @ 1:40 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 190.18 km (118 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km ESE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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