A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Tambolaka in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us7000pbk8. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbk8. 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 62.179 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 14:18:07 / February 5, 2025 @ 2:18 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:18:07 / 2:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 119.6086 East, latitude -9.7446 South, depth = 62.179 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waingapu. Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km SE of Tambolaka, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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