Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (149 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20004x4e. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004x4e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.07 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.8853 East, latitude 3.718 North, depth = 7.07 km. The temblor was detected at 03:54:26 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/16 / 2016-02-01 18:54:26 / February 1, 2016 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT.

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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 240 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.8853° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.718° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	240km NNE 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	2016-02-01 18:54:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-02 17:07:06	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	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	3.296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	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	us20004x4e	Id of event.
Event Code	20004x4e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004x4e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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