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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.778S, 127.0878WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia (63 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us2000awmp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awmp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 18:44:05 / September 19, 2017 @ 6:44 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:44:05 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.0878 East, latitude 1.778 North, depth = 119.45 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 119.45 km (74 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0878° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km W 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 2017-09-19 18:44:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-13 16:42:41 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 1.037 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 166 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 us2000awmp Id of event.
Event Code 2000awmp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awmp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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