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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Manado in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1812S, 124.7886WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Manado in Indonesia on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.6 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008igy. Unique identifier: us20008igy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 124.7886° East, latitude 2.1812° North, depth = 65.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 07:24:25 / January 24, 2017 @ 7:24 am. The temblor was reported at 15:24:25 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bitung, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Manado (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 77 km N of Manado, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km N of Manado, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-24 07:24:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-12 13:33:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 3.783 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us20008igy Id of event.
Event Code 20008igy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008igy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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