Significant 5.6 quake hits near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, North Maluku, Indonesia
5.6 quake 19 Sep 4:45 pm (GMT +9)

Just 8 minutes ago, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, North Maluku, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded in the afternoon on Thursday, September 19th, 2024, at 4:45 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface.
The event was filed by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the first seismological agency to report it.
A second report was later issued by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which listed it as a magnitude 5.6 earthquake as well. A third agency, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), reported the same quake at magnitude 5.7.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Tobelo (pop. 10,000) located 88 km from the epicenter.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: Sep 19, 2024 04:45 pm (Jayapura time) local time (19 Sep 2024 07:45 GMT)
Magnitude: 5.6
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 2.2°N / 128.65°E (Morotai Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia)
Primary data source: BMKG
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