A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tilamuta in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/19 / 2019-04-16 15:44:24 / April 16, 2019 @ 3:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000375u. Id of event: us7000375u. The temblor was detected at 23:44:24 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.4767 East, latitude -0.0544 South, depth = 258.12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 258.12 km (160 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km SSE of Tilamuta, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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