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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kota Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.2942S, 126.1557WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 145 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (90 miles). 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: us10008gvx. Id of event: us10008gvx. Global time and date of event 12/04/17 / 2017-04-12 09:44:40 / April 12, 2017 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:44:40 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.02 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.1557 East, latitude 0.2942 North, depth = 54.02 km.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 145 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1557° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.2942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-12 09:44:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-12 10:01:27 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 326 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 1.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10008gvx Id of event.
Event Code 10008gvx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gvx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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