A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 84.523 km (53 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 02:46:06 / April 18, 2025 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:46:06 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.836 East, latitude 0.6909 North, depth = 84.523 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pwn7. Id of event: us7000pwn7.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 62 km W of Ternate, Indonesia.

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