A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us600054ma. Unique identifier: us600054ma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 19:16:52 / August 5, 2019 @ 7:16 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:16:52 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 128.3625° East, latitude 2.4736° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). 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 Tobelo.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 91 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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