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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.1809S, 127.2493WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.35 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 127.2493 East, latitude 1.1809 North, depth = 54.35 km. The temblor was detected at 15:27:49 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004w37. Event ids that are associated: us10004w37. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 06:27:49 / March 4, 2016 @ 6:27 am.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2493° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2016-03-04 06:27:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-24 12:57:49 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 0.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us10004w37 Id of event.
Event Code 10004w37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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