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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 77 km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.6768S, 125.2319WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tondano in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 74.73 km, 125.2319° East, 0.6768° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.73 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:35:36 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/15 / 2015-08-29 11:35:36 / August 29, 2015 @ 11:35 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100035z4. Unique identifier: us100035z4.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Bitung, Tomohon (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 77 km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2319° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.6768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-29 11:35:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 06:38:46 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 312 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 2.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us100035z4 Id of event.
Event Code 100035z4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100035z4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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