A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tilamuta in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3v8. Unique identifier: us2000c3v8. The epicenter was at a depth of 197.34 km (123 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:37 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 12:48:37 / December 6, 2017 @ 12:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 122.3217° East, latitude 0.6124° North, depth = 197.34 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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