M6.0 earthquake 66 km SSE of Tobelo, Indonesia
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck 66 km SSE of Tobelo, Indonesia on Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 9:19 AM GMT+9 (00:19 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.0 (mwb), strong
- Local time
- UTC
- 2003-08-11 00:19:09 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 1.142° N, 128.152° E
- Region
- Indonesia
- Strongest shaking
- VII, very strong shaking
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Deaths and damage
From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 5713), matched to this event by time and place.
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
- Houses damaged
- 200
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- VII, very strong shaking
- Peak ground acceleration
- 29.7% of gravity
- Peak ground velocity
- 3.4 cm/s
- Map
- Automatic
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Strike-slip
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 66°, dip 62°, rake 174°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 159°, dip 85°, rake 28°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Depth from
- OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
- Station coverage gap
- 68°
- Stations used
- 185
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 3.0 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.556 km SSE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8452 days ago · 10 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.464 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8452 days ago · 10 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.866 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8452 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.785 km ESE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8452 days ago · 10 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.273 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8452 days ago · 10 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.860 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8451 days ago · 10 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.445 km NE of Sofifi, Indonesia · 8441 days ago · 33 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.158 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8411 days ago · 33 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.870 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8402 days ago · 131 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.531 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia · 8396 days ago · 100 km deep · 89 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000c4kv (also filed as gcmtc081103a, gcmt20030811001909, atlas20030811001914, iscgem7059231). Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC.