Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 127 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (79 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/16 / 2016-05-06 14:01:01 / May 6, 2016 @ 2:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:01:01 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 126.9908° East, 2.2493° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005h5k. Id of event: us10005h5k.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-three 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: 127 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9908° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	2.2493° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127km WNW 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	2016-05-06 14:01:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-20 09:55:33	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	5.336	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	137	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	us10005h5k	Id of event.
Event Code	10005h5k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005h5k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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