A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us2000jepg. Event ids that are associated: us2000jepg. The epicenter was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:03:08 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 10:03:08 / February 7, 2019 @ 10:03 am. Exact location of event, depth 33 km, 128.7647° East, 2.2151° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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