A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 138 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (86 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 00:05:06 / November 20, 2019 @ 12:05 am. The temblor was reported at 08:05:06 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us70006a59. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006a59. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.5312° East, latitude 1.7085° North, depth = 35 km.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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