A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.5435 East, latitude 2.1832 North, depth = 70 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 01:31:49 / February 8, 2019 @ 1:31 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 70 km (43 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:31:49 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000jndf. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jndf.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 77 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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