Moderate magnitude 4.8 earthquake 97 km northeast of Bitung, Indonesia

Just 12 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021, at 8:56 am local time, at a shallow depth of 14 km below the surface.
The event was filed by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) which listed the quake at magnitude 4.8 as well.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Bitung (pop. 137,400) located 97 km from the epicenter, and Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (pop. 8,000) 118 km away.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: Sep 21, 2021 8:56 am (GMT +9) local time (20 Sep 2021 23:56 GMT)
Magnitude: 4.8
Depth: 14.0 km
Epicenterlatitude / longitude: 1.81°N / 125.99°E (Molucca Sea, Indonesia)
Primary data source: BMKG
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