A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.2511 East, latitude 1.5241 North, depth = 112.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 16:23:57 / July 2, 2018 @ 4:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:23:57 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112.05 km (70 miles). Unique identifier: us2000fycq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fycq.
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 81 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia.
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