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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.9139S, 127.4941WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:48:18 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 19:48:18 / November 26, 2015 @ 7:48 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.63 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.4941° East, latitude 0.9139° North, depth = 9.63 km. Id of earthquake: us100041kq. Event ids that are associated: us100041kq.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NE of Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NE of Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 19:48:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 20:53:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us100041kq Id of event.
Event Code 100041kq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041kq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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