A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 04:55:03 / December 29, 2019 @ 4:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 12:55:03 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 111.65 km (69 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.0655 East, latitude -0.0823 South, depth = 111.65 km. Event id: us70006zn5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006zn5.
The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 53 km SSW of Bilungala, Indonesia.
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