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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6521S, 128.4346WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.69 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008fvs. Id of event: us20008fvs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/17 / 2017-01-17 21:34:52 / January 17, 2017 @ 9:34 pm. Exact location, longitude 128.4346° East, latitude 1.6521° North, depth = 89.69 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:34:52 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km E of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km E 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 2017-01-17 21:34:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-11 02:45:05 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 246 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 3.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us20008fvs Id of event.
Event Code 20008fvs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008fvs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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