A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 03:16:12 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j5vh. Unique identifier: us2000j5vh. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.6351 East, latitude 1.7936 North, depth = 35 km. 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). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 18:16:12 / January 3, 2019 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km E of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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