A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 131 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (81 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 12:50:23 / April 3, 2020 @ 12:50 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 126.5364° East, 1.6233° North. The temblor was detected at 20:50:23 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008mlj. Id of event: us70008mlj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 131 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.
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