A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 115 km E of Bitung, Indonesia (71 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.2122° East, latitude 1.5417° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us70006b65. Event ids that are associated: us70006b65. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:26:00 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 21:26:00 / November 14, 2019 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 115 km E of Bitung, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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