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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.7647S, 127.4585WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 127.4585° East, 0.7647° North, depth 110.14 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004188. Event ids that are associated: us10004188. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 16:39:17 / November 21, 2015 @ 4:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.14 km (68 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:39:17 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 9 km (5 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. 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: 7 km ESE of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.7647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE 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 2015-11-21 16:39:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-20 16:45:42 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 271 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 5.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us10004188 Id of event.
Event Code 10004188 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004188, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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