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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.7886S, 127.4927WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 106.41 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10005h3r. Event ids that are associated: us10005h3r. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 12:13:58 / May 13, 2016 @ 12:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:13:58 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.4927° East, 1.7886° North, depth 106.41 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 57 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4927° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km W 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 2016-05-13 12:13:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 12:55:10 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 312 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 1.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10005h3r Id of event.
Event Code 10005h3r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005h3r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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