A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Saparua in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 129.0774 East, latitude -4.0159 South, depth = 129.31 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/19 / 2019-01-16 01:17:59 / January 16, 2019 @ 1:17 am. The temblor was picked up at 10:17:59 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000j4cn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j4cn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.31 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 68 km SE of Saparua, Indonesia.
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