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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.8513S, 127.322WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 145 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (90 miles). Exact location of event, depth 64.9 km, 127.322° East, 2.8513° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 13:35:08 / August 2, 2016 @ 1:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.9 km (40 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:35:08 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10006aeq. Event ids that are associated: us10006aeq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and five 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 145 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.322° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.8513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km NNW 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 2016-08-02 13:35:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-28 15:07:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us10006aeq Id of event.
Event Code 10006aeq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006aeq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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