A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137.07 km (85 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:52:31 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006ayh. Event ids that are associated: us70006ayh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 11:52:31 / November 21, 2019 @ 11:52 am. Exact location of event, longitude 127.3637 East, latitude 1.6427 North, depth = 137.07 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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