A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 128.09 km, 126.963° East, 1.4153° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.09 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:18:36 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70009g3g. Event ids that are associated: us70009g3g. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 00:18:36 / May 8, 2020 @ 12:18 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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