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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.7483S, 127.0205WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 248 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (154 miles). Exact location of event, depth 24.83 km, 127.0205° East, 3.7483° North. The temblor was reported at 05:20:38 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.83 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 21:20:38 / January 11, 2016 @ 9:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004dm1. Unique identifier: us10004dm1.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 248 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.7483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 248km NNW 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 2016-01-11 21:20:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-11 22:47:36 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 298 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 2.976 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us10004dm1 Id of event.
Event Code 10004dm1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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