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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Poigar in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6775S, 124.0675WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Poigar in Indonesia on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 07:01:12 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/09/16 / 2016-09-12 23:01:12 / September 12, 2016 @ 11:01 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 312.09 km (194 miles). Exact location, longitude 124.0675° East, latitude 1.6775° North, depth = 312.09 km. 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: us10006qvu. Id of event: us10006qvu.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomohon, Manado (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km NNW of Poigar, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 312.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km NNW of Poigar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-12 23:01:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-02 00:39:35 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 284 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 2.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10006qvu Id of event.
Event Code 10006qvu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006qvu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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