A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Lolak in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 123.79 East, latitude 0.7717 North, depth = 267.14 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g18i. Id of event: us2000g18i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 13:42:14 / July 3, 2018 @ 1:42 pm. The temblor was picked up at 21:42:14 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 267.14 km (166 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo.
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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 27 km WSW of Lolak, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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