A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.06 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 30/01/21 / 2021-01-30 05:17:24 / January 30, 2021 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000dd64. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dd64. The temblor was picked up at 05:17:24 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.3568 East, latitude -3.0919 South, depth = 10.06 km.
Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai.
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km ENE of Amahai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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