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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 118 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.7274S, 128.3961WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 118 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (73 miles). Event id: us20004066. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004066. The epicenter was at a depth of 201.88 km (125 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/10/15 / 2015-10-23 06:35:10 / October 23, 2015 @ 6:35 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:35:10 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 201.88 km, 128.3961° East, 2.7274° North.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 118 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3961° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.7274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km NNE 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 2015-10-23 06:35:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 13:48:51 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 284 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 2.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us20004066 Id of event.
Event Code 20004066 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004066, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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