A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 126.9416 East, latitude 0.828 North, depth = 43.07 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:40:24 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700049xm. Unique identifier: us700049xm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 16:40:24 / July 4, 2019 @ 4:40 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.07 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 47 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.
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