A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 07/11/17 / 2017-11-07 21:47:26 / November 7, 2017 @ 9:47 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:47:26 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 142.1 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 123.4247 East, latitude 0.0136 North, depth = 142.1 km. Unique identifier: us2000bk2v. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bk2v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 46 km SSE of Bilungala, Indonesia.
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