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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5692S, 127.8445WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.8445 East, latitude 1.5692 North, depth = 33.24 km. The temblor was detected at 12:44:49 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.24 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 03:44:49 / May 14, 2016 @ 3:44 am. Id of earthquake: us10005hcp. Event ids that are associated: us10005hcp.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Tobelo. Epicenter of the event was 99 km (61 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.8445° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW 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 2016-05-14 03:44:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-14 04:04:21 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 340 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 0.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us10005hcp Id of event.
Event Code 10005hcp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hcp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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