A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 128.0641 East, latitude 2.3144 North, depth = 30.8 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 13:10:09 / December 12, 2017 @ 1:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:10:09 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000bt4x. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bt4x. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.8 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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