A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 83.06 km (52 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 21:28:44 / May 7, 2019 @ 9:28 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:28:44 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003m23. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003m23. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.4587 East, latitude 0.7164 North, depth = 83.06 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tondano, Bitung. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 86 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia.
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