A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/19 / 2019-11-16 04:20:44 / November 16, 2019 @ 4:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.13 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 133.13 km, 127.2483° East, 1.465° North. Unique identifier: us70006bq7. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006bq7. The temblor was reported at 12:20:44 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Sofifi, Ternate. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
Did you feel anything?
Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 75 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia.
Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply