A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 07:51:01 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000bvys. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvys. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 22:51:01 / November 20, 2017 @ 10:51 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.33 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 128.1027° East, latitude 2.3959° North, depth = 20.33 km.
Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 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).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 74 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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