A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 16:33:31 / April 13, 2020 @ 4:33 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8751 East, latitude 0.2915 North, depth = 41.6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.6 km (26 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:33:31 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700090hg. Id of event: us700090hg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.
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