A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 127.6518° East, latitude 2.434° North, depth = 108.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 18:54:50 / October 1, 2018 @ 6:54 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:54:50 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000h56y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h56y. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 108.9 km (68 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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