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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.6377S, 126.9838WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 239 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (149 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.9838 East, latitude 3.6377 North, depth = 72.26 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:50:15 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.26 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/17 / 2017-01-29 04:50:15 / January 29, 2017 @ 4:50 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008izk. Unique identifier: us20008izk.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 239 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9838° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.6377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 239km NNW 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 2017-01-29 04:50:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-16 06:33:52 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 271 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 2.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us20008izk Id of event.
Event Code 20008izk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008izk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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