A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 21:46:36 / July 11, 2019 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:46:36 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.4483° East, latitude 0.5587° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70004im9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004im9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate. Earthquake epicenter was 107 km (67 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 105 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.
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