A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:47:31 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.4065 East, latitude 0.8355 North, depth = 18.21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.21 km (11 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/17 / 2017-04-18 14:47:31 / April 18, 2017 @ 2:47 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008n35. Id of event: us10008n35.
The epicenter was 6 km (3 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 3 km N of Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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