A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 127.9262° East, 1.9838° North, depth 50.1 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.1 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 11:51:26 / December 11, 2017 @ 11:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:51:26 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c5l6. Unique identifier: us2000c5l6.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 29 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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