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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.9464S, 128.1673WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 135 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia (84 miles). Exact location, longitude 128.1673° East, latitude 2.9464° North, depth = 130.23 km. Unique identifier: us10007ud0. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ud0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 14:54:30 / January 3, 2017 @ 2:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.23 km (81 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:54:30 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 135 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.1673° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.9464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km 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 2017-01-03 14:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-01 16:49:10 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 2.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10007ud0 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ud0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ud0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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