A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.65 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600050q4. Id of event: us600050q4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:53:44 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 03:53:44 / August 5, 2019 @ 3:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 127.4958° East, latitude 1.8564° North, depth = 117.65 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
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 two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 58 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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