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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.8787S, 127.527WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 127.527° East, 1.8787° North, depth 125.99 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 125.99 km (78 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:09:36 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008ip4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008ip4. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 23:09:36 / April 11, 2017 @ 11:09 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8787° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WNW 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 2017-04-11 23:09:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 03:29:46 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 5.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us10008ip4 Id of event.
Event Code 10008ip4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ip4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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