A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.79 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 18:39:23 / April 29, 2017 @ 6:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.7193 East, latitude 1.3137 North, depth = 86.79 km. Id of earthquake: us10008pny. Event ids that are associated: us10008pny. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:39:23 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tondano, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Bitung (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia.
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