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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.4588S, 128.3095WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 128.3095° East, 1.4588° North, depth 84.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84.85 km (53 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 16:37:06 / July 23, 2015 @ 4:37 pm. The temblor was detected at 01:37:06 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100031ej. Ids that are associated to the event: us100031ej.

Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3095° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SE 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 2015-07-23 16:37:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 18:04:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 246 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 1.163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us100031ej Id of event.
Event Code 100031ej An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031ej, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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