A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 124.1 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 19:26:09 / December 20, 2018 @ 7:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ivis. Unique identifier: us2000ivis. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:26:09 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 127.272° East, latitude 1.8318° North, depth = 124.1 km.
Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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