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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4353S, 128.7489WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:40:15 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.7489 East, latitude 1.4353 North, depth = 190.18 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007t4q. Unique identifier: us10007t4q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 13:40:15 / December 27, 2016 @ 1:40 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 190.18 km (118 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km ESE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7489° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km ESE 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 2016-12-27 13:40:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-25 14:50:13 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 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 3.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us10007t4q Id of event.
Event Code 10007t4q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t4q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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