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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Molibagu in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.1231S, 123.7501WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Molibagu in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us10006cak. Event ids that are associated: us10006cak. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 138.49 km (86 miles). Exact location, longitude 123.7501° East, latitude 0.1231° North, depth = 138.49 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:27:39 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 11:27:39 / August 9, 2016 @ 11:27 am.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop).

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 thirty-five 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 earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 38 km SW of Molibagu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.7501° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 138.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SW of Molibagu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-09 11:27:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-09 11:52:09 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 369 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 1.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us10006cak Id of event.
Event Code 10006cak An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cak, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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