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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 162 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0185S, 126.5817WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 162 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (101 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.5817° East, 2.0185° North, depth 59.65 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.65 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/01/16 / 2016-01-15 00:08:21 / January 15, 2016 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10004g0p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004g0p. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:08:21 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 162 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km NNW of Kota 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 2016-01-15 00:08:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-09 02:23:24 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 259 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 1.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us10004g0p Id of event.
Event Code 10004g0p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004g0p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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