A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.1082 East, latitude 1.5444 North, depth = 116.36 km. Id of earthquake: us10005dzh. Event ids that are associated: us10005dzh. 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 116.36 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 16:38:29 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/16 / 2016-05-05 08:38:29 / May 5, 2016 @ 8:38 am.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 88 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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