A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hila in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Hila in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayz8. Id of event: us1000ayz8. Exact location of event, longitude 127.8157 East, latitude -3.7013 South, depth = 32.38 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 11:50:51 / October 31, 2017 @ 11:50 am. The temblor was reported at 20:50:51 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.38 km (20 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambon. Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km WSW of Hila, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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