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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.3997S, 127.9313WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 127.9313° East, latitude 2.3997° North, depth = 93.93 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93.93 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/01/17 / 2017-01-09 23:06:31 / January 9, 2017 @ 11:06 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:31 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007vi3. Event ids that are associated: us10007vi3.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.9313° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km N 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 2017-01-09 23:06:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-29 01:21:46 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 259 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 6.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10007vi3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vi3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vi3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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