A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 101 km NE of Laiwui, Indonesia (63 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:56:10 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 13:56:10 / July 14, 2019 @ 1:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70004k3c. Event ids that are associated: us70004k3c. Exact location, longitude 128.3852° East, latitude -0.7826° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km NE of Laiwui, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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