A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Masohi in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us7000q8y2. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q8y2. Exact location of event, longitude 129.5823 East, latitude -3.0042 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/25 / 2025-06-12 18:37:05 / June 12, 2025 @ 6:37 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:37:05 / 6:37 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 75 km ENE of Masohi, Indonesia.
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