A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Saparua in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006czu. Unique identifier: us10006czu. Exact location of event, longitude 129.2326 East, latitude -4.001 South, depth = 47.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 15:58:58 / August 11, 2016 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:58:58 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.9 km (30 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 two and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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 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: 80 km SE of Saparua, Indonesia.
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