A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 16:23:31 / April 8, 2019 @ 4:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.49 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:23:31 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.93° East, 2.1018° North, depth 53.49 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000378x. Unique identifier: us7000378x.
The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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