A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us2000g0ru. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g0ru. Exact location, longitude 127.3925° East, latitude 1.3238° North, depth = 129.98 km. The temblor was reported at 07:31:36 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.98 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 22:31:36 / July 9, 2018 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo, Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 57 km N of Ternate, Indonesia.
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