A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 153 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (95 miles). Unique identifier: us2000j0wn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0wn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7668 East, latitude 2.3262 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 21:32:59 / January 6, 2019 @ 9:32 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:32:59 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 153 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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