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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 71 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.4197S, 127.2296WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.2296 East, latitude 1.4197 North, depth = 150.71 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:38:33 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 08:38:33 / October 20, 2016 @ 8:38 am. Id of earthquake: us20007gn8. Event ids that are associated: us20007gn8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 150.71 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Sofifi, Ternate. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 71 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2296° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNW of 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 2016-10-20 08:38:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-09 12:09:53 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 0.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us20007gn8 Id of event.
Event Code 20007gn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007gn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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