Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 214 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (133 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:03:19 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mkk. Id of event: us20008mkk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/17 / 2017-02-27 00:03:19 / February 27, 2017 @ 12:03 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.77 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8654 East, latitude 3.2912 North, depth = 75.77 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 214 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.8654° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.2912° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	214km NW 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	2017-02-27 00:03:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-27 00:28:00	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	369	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	2.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us20008mkk	Id of event.
Event Code	20008mkk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008mkk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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