Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 249 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 249 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (155 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.46 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: us10004ex8. Event ids that are associated: us10004ex8. Exact location of earthquake, 127.1597° East, 3.8183° North, depth 23.46 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:09:47 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 22:09:47 / January 11, 2016 @ 10:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, 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 in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 249 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.1597° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.8183° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	249km 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 22:09:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-26 00:04:52	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	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	3.033	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us10004ex8	Id of event.
Event Code	10004ex8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004ex8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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