A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 16:58:46 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/05/24 / 2024-05-22 16:58:46 / May 22, 2024 @ 4:58 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.471 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000n0b2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n0b2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 123.4242 East, latitude -0.1012 South, depth = 101.471 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo.
Every 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 81 km SSE of Gorontalo, Indonesia.
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