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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Isimu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.0803S, 122.8314WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Isimu in Indonesia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 07:50:15 / July 19, 2015 @ 7:50 am. The temblor was reported at 15:50:15 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.1 km (34 miles). Id of earthquake: us20002yhk. Event ids that are associated: us20002yhk. Exact location of event, longitude 122.8314 East, latitude 1.0803 North, depth = 55.1 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo. Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km N of Isimu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km N of Isimu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-19 07:50:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 08:14:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002yhk Id of event.
Event Code 20002yhk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yhk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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