A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Halmahera, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Halmahera, Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 23:06:36 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700059q6. Ids that are associated to the event: us700059q6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 23:06:36 / August 23, 2019 @ 11:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.38 km (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.226 East, latitude 1.6581 North, depth = 122.38 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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