A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nh5h. Unique identifier: us6000nh5h. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.272 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:06:54 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.7517 East, latitude 1.5116 North, depth = 9.272 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 17:06:54 / July 19, 2024 @ 5:06 pm.
Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate, Sofifi, Tobelo.
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 37 km SW of Tobelo, Indonesia.
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