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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.3691S, 128.4187WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 187 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (116 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 01:16:04 / January 20, 2017 @ 1:16 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:16:04 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007u8m. Event ids that are associated: us10007u8m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.24 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.4187 East, latitude 3.3691 North, depth = 79.24 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 187 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4187° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.3691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187km NNE 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 2017-01-20 01:16:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-20 02:45:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 298 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 2.785 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us10007u8m Id of event.
Event Code 10007u8m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u8m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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