A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 128.6005° East, latitude 2.3706° North, depth = 230.53 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/10/18 / 2018-10-21 10:53:21 / October 21, 2018 @ 10:53 am. The temblor was detected at 19:53:21 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hf8a. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hf8a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 230.53 km (143 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 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 six and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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