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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.3328S, 126.8469WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 145 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (90 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:16:26 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 00:16:26 / August 5, 2015 @ 12:16 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8469 East, latitude 2.3328 North, depth = 51.02 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10002y0f. Event ids that are associated: us10002y0f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.02 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 145 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8469° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-05 00:16:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 02:15:13 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 326 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 1.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us10002y0f Id of event.
Event Code 10002y0f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002y0f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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