A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 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 event, longitude 127.3399 East, latitude 1.8202 North, depth = 117.03 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 13:57:31 / December 26, 2017 @ 1:57 pm. Event id: us1000bwd3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwd3. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:31 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 117.03 km (73 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 75 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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