A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 04:35:14 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 20:35:14 / February 5, 2019 @ 8:35 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000jnaj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jnaj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.983 East, latitude -0.3551 South, depth = 72.26 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.26 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luwuk (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 69 km NNE of Luwuk, Indonesia.
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