A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003net. Unique identifier: us70003net. Exact location of event, longitude 128.2814 East, latitude 2.5169 North, depth = 10 km. 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: 20/05/19 / 2019-05-20 04:52:42 / May 20, 2019 @ 4:52 am. The temblor was picked up at 13:52:42 / 1:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
Did you feel it?
Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 92 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia.
Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply