A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 128.1897 East, latitude 1.3527 North, depth = 86.24 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 08:47:13 / August 13, 2019 @ 8:47 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us600057ik. Unique identifier: us600057ik. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.24 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:47:13 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby 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.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 46 km SSE of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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