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


Earthquake location -0.0403S, 126.8971WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 105 km SSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (65 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:47:37 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000657z. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000657z. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.71 km (59 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 07:47:37 / June 18, 2016 @ 7:47 am. Exact location of event, longitude 126.8971 East, latitude -0.0403 South, depth = 95.71 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 105 km SSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.0403° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km SSW 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 2016-06-18 07:47:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-18 08:02:29 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 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 0.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us2000657z Id of event.
Event Code 2000657z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000657z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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