A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. Unique identifier: us60003r52. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003r52. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 11:31:44 / May 23, 2019 @ 11:31 am. The temblor was reported at 20:31:44 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 127.3789 East, latitude 1.5116 North, depth = 110.68 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.68 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate, Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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